Join historians Dr. Mary Murphy and Dr. Sherry Smith – 100 years after the momentous passage of the 19th amendment formalizing women’s right to vote – for a lively discussion on the role of Wyoming and Western states in the national suffrage movement. 

Murphy and Smith will focus on two interesting and unorthodox women — one an advocate of free love, Sara Bard Field, and the other, Jeannette Rankin, the first woman in the nation elected to the House of Representatives. These are not the dowdy, stern-faced suffragists of stereotype but vital young women who pushed not only for the ballot but for a new world of fresh opportunities and expanded freedom for women. Followed by a Q&A. 

The event will be online with the Jackson Hole Historical Society & Museum at bit.ly/westernsuffrage.
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