Thomas F. (hardtack) - , reviewed on 4/16/2020 + 2611 more book reviews

THis is a fascinating book, and anyone interested in the development of the American West should read it. In one chapter, Brown relates how women did all they could to find reading material, often ordering books from the East, which took months to arrive.

But all through the book Brown uses the personal experiences of the women to illustrate what effect they had on their communities. One aspect that was particularly interesting was the struggle to obtain voting rights for women. But it Wyoming it just seemed to happen naturally. A woman was elected as a Justice of the Peace in the 1860s. Brown also relates how Congress was really surprised in 1917, when it sat for a new session, to find a woman in the House of Representatives who represented Montana.

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