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The status of women in the 19th-century West has drawn the attention of numerous scholars, whose interpretations fall into three types: 1) the Frontier school influenced by Frederick Jackson Turner, which argues that the West was a liberating experience for women and men; 2) the reactionists, who view the West as a place of drudgery for women ...
Montana suffragists campaign for Votes for Women, November 2, 1914. The women's suffrage movement in Montana started while it was still a territory. The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was an early organizer that supported suffrage in the state, arriving in 1883.
Sarah Gammon Brown Bickford (December 25, 1856 – July 19, 1931) was born into slavery in either Tennessee or North Carolina. In the 1870s she made her way to the Montana goldfields, trading work as a nanny for transportation.
Chief Eagle Cap signs a petition at the Montana League of Women Voters booth at the Montana State Fair in Helena. This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Montana. The fight for women's suffrage in Montana started earlier, before even Montana became a state. In 1887, women gained the right to vote in school board elections and on tax issues ...
Approximately 200 Native people were killed, most of whom were women, children, and older men. As part of a campaign to suppress Mountain Chief 's band of Piegan Blackfeet, the U.S. Army attacked a different band led by Chief Heavy Runner, to whom the United States government had previously promised their protection.
List of collections held by MSU Archives and Special Collections that relate to women. Montana Women's History Facebook page This is not a vetted website so use for inspiration only Montana Women's History website Use for inspiration, bibliographies, articles in Magazine of Western History, oral histories and more. Index of Montana-related articles
The youth plaintiffs in the landmark legal case saw for themselves how a volatile climate was making life worse in their state. Here, they tell Cosmopolitan why they wanted to hold their ...
The first woman to run for Attorney General in Montana was Ella Knowles. [19] Following her successful lobbying of the 1889 Montana Legislature to allow women to take the bar exam, Knowles became be first lawyer in the state of Montana and the first female notary. She was the first woman to run for Montana Attorney General on the 1892 populist ...