Table of Contents

Introduction: “‘We Will Never Halt till the Prize is Won”: An Introduction to Suffrage on the Northern Great Plains” by Molly P. Rozum and Lori Ann Lahlum

Part 1

“So Great an Innovation”: Woman Suffrage in Wyoming by Jennifer Helton

Quiet Voices in the Prairie Wind: The Politics of Woman Suffrage in North Dakota, 1873–1920 by Barbara Handy-Marchello

The Marathon of Montana Suffrage: A Commitment to Civic Activism by Jennifer J. Hill

Defending Separate Spheres: Anti-Suffrage Women in South Dakota Suffrage Campaigns by Paula M. Nelson

 Snapshots 

A Sentiment of Justice: The Woman Suffrage Question and Wyoming Statehood by Amy L. McKinney

The South Dakota Scandinavian Temperance Society and Woman Suffrage by Lori Ann Lahlum

Frauenstimmrecht in Süd-Dakota: German-Language Newspapers in South Dakota on Woman Suffrage by Kelly O’Dea

Part 2

“The Women Voted”: School Suffrage in Dakota Territory and South Dakota by Ruth Page Jones

Ethnicity and Woman Suffrage on the South Dakota Plains by Sara Egge

Citizenship, Civilization, and Property: The 1890 South Dakota Vote on Woman Suffrage and Indian Suffrage by Molly Rozum

“Wake Up, Wyoming”: The Push to Ratify the Susan B. Anthony Amendment in the Northern Great Plains States by Amy L. McKinney

Snapshots 

Martha Symons Boies Atkinson: First Woman Bailiff by Renee Laegreid

Kate Selby Wilder Dresses the Part by Ann W. Braaten

Jeanette Rankin on the Road by Cody Dodge Ewert 

Black Hills Suffragist Mabel Rewman by Kelly Kirk

Part 3

Cora Smith Eaton and North Dakota Woman Suffrage, 1888–1897 by Kristin Mapel Bloomberg

“A Right to Help Make the Laws”: Helen Piotopowaka Clarke, Virginia Billedeaux, and Blackfeet Empowerment by Dee Garceau

Kate Selby Wilder: Clubwoman, Suffragist, Temperance Activist, and City Commissioner by Ann W. Braaten