When Esther Morris Headed West: Women, Wyoming, and the Right to Vote
Author:
Maryhale Woolsey
Illustrator:
Jacqueline Rogers
Publication:
2001 by Holiday House
Genre:
Biography, History, Non-fiction, Picture Books
Pages:
32
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Watch out, Wyoming!
Esther Morris is coming to town!Esther Morris was a large woman with wide-open ideas that needed room to grow. So in 1869 she headed out to Wyoming. There she came upon a man who shared her notions: Colonel William Bright thought women's being able to vote made all kinds of sense. Esther decided it was time to show that women could hold office, too. So she went and became the first female judge in the United States.
Not everyone liked Esther's ideas. But Esther had the courage to show how an idea looked in the living of it—and to change some minds along the way. This is the tale of a remarkable woman who was a pioneer in more ways than one!
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Maryhale Woolsey
1899 - 1969American
When she was sixteen and a schoolgirl in Utah, Maryhale Woolsey wrote the words for "When It's Springtime in the Rockies," a song that years later b... See more
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Two Esther Morris Picture Books
Reviewed by Diane Pendergraft
Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge begins the story, When Esther Morris Headed West: Wyoming, Women, and the Right to Vote, in 1869 with Esther Mae Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris heading to South Pass City, Wyoming on a stagecoach. She was 55 years old.
Morris believed women should be able to vote and to hold elected office. In South Pass City, a booming gold mining town, she met Colonel William Bright. He was a member of the Wyoming Territorial Council and had already proposed An Act to Grant to the Women of the Wyoming Territory the Right of Suffrage and to Hold Office. The act passed toward the end of 1869.
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