To pass suffrage, Wyoming embraced radical innovation
Historian Jennifer Helton offers a lesson in the courage, and flaws, that played into the territory’s historic decision.
Jennifer Helton
A native of Wyoming, Jennifer Helton is assistant professor of history at Ohlone College in Fremont, California. She has written essays on women’s voting rights in the West for the National Park Service and for High Country News. This piece is based on her essay from the book “Equality at the Ballot Box,” published in 2019 by the South Dakota Historical Society Press.
