Chris Enss - No Place for a Woman: The Struggle for Suffrage in the Wild West

Chris Enss is a New York Times best-selling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for more than twenty years. She has penned more than forty published books on the subject. Her book entitled Entertaining Women: Actresses, Dancers, and Singers in the Old West was a Spur Award finalist in 2017. Ensss book Mochis War: The Tragedy of Sand Creek received the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Best Nonfiction Western for 2015. Her book entitled Object Matrimony: The Risky Business of Mail-Order Matchmakingon the Western Frontier won the Elmer Kelton Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 2013. Ensss book Sam Sixkiller: Cherokee Frontier Lawman was named Outstanding Book on Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society.

T he idea of writing a book about the suffrage movement west of the Mississippi seemed a monumental undertaking. The inspiration needed to press forward came from social reformer and womens rights activist Susan B. Anthony. Failure is impossible, Miss Anthony reminded those fighting for womens right to vote in 1906. It was with that in mind that the work could be completed.

In addition to thanking dedicated suffragists like Susan B. Anthony, the following organizations and individuals deserve recognition for their support and help in making this volume possible.

The ladies at the Nevada County Historical Society for compiling the correspondence between Mr. & Mrs. Sargent and Susan B. Anthony, including Senator Aaron Sargents draft of what would eventually become the Nineteenth Amendment.

Utah State Historical Society

Oregon State Historical Society

U.S. National Park Service

Library of Congress

Coi Drummond-Gehrig at the Denver Public Library

Maria Shriver, author and former First Lady of California

John Priest, associate publicity manager at Rowman & Littlefield Publishing for never failing to do whats necessary to promote a title.

And to editor Erin Turnerwithout her this book would be woefully lacking. It is her dedication and drive that has seen this project through and made it a rewarding venture.

Books

Babcock, Barbara. Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Baker, Jean H. Sisters: The Lives of Americas Suffragists. New York: Hill & Wang, 2006.

. Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited. London: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Block, Judy Rachel. The First Woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin. New York: C.P.I., 1978.

Buhle, Mari Jo, and Paul Buhle. The Concise History of Woman Suffrage. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1978.

Clark, Rebekah Ryan. An Uncovered History: Mormons in the Woman Suffrage Movement, 18961920. In New Scholarship on Latter-day Saint Women in the Twentieth Century: Selections from the Womens History Initiative Seminars, 20032004, edited by Carol Cornwall Madsen and Cherry B. Silver. Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for LDS History, 2005.

Davidson, Sue. A Heart in Politics: Jeannette Rankin and Patsy T. Mink. Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 1994.

Dubois, Ellen C. Harriot Stanton Blanton: Winning of Woman Suffrage. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.

. Womans Suffrage and Womens Rights. New York: New York University Press, 1947.

Duniway, Abigail Scott . Path Breaking:An Autobiographical History of theEqual Suffrage Movement in the Pacific Coast States. Portland, OR: James, Kerns & Abbott, 1914.

Enss, Chris. Hearts West: Mail Order Brides on the Western Frontier. Guilford, CT: TwoDot Books, 2005.

. Tales behind the Tombstones: The Deaths and Burials of the Old Wests Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen. Guilford, CT: TwoDot Books, 2007.

Evans, Sarah M. Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America. New York: Free Press, 1989.

Faragher, John. Women and Men on the Overland Trail. Rev. ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.

Faulkner, Carol. Lucretia Motts Heresy: Abolition and Womens Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Flexner, Eleanor. Century of Struggle: The Womans Rights Movement in theUnited States. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1996

Gaughen, Shasta. Why Women Should Vote: Womens Rights. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 2003.

. Women Have No Need to Vote: Womens Rights. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 2003.

Gavin, Lettie. American Women in World War I: They Also Served. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 1997.

Giles, Kevin S. Flight of the Dove: The Story of Jeannette Rankin. Beaverton, OR: Touchstone Press, 1980.

Griffith, Elisabeth. In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. London: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Gullett, Gayle. Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and Development of theCalifornia Womens Movement, 18801911. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Hankins, Barry. The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.

Harper, Ida Husted. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from Her Contemporaries during Fifty Years. Vol. 1 of 2. Indianapolis, IN: Bowen-Merrill, 1898.

Hinks, Peter P, John R. McKivigan, and R. Owen Williams. Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition: Greenwood Milestones in African American History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.

Isenberg, Nancy. Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Josephson, Hannah Geffen. Jeannette Rankin, First Lady in Congress: ABiography. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1974.

Kerr, Andrea Moore. Lucy Stone: Speaking Out for Equality. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

Kraditor, Aileen. The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement 18901920. New York: W. W. Norton, 1981.

Larson, T. A. History of Wyoming. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965.

Lerner, Gerda, and Sarah Moore Grimk. The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimk. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Lopach, James J., and Jean A. Luckowski. Jeannette Rankin: A PoliticalWoman. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2005.

Lutz, Alma. Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian. Portland, OR: CreateSpace, 2014.

Madsen, Carol Cornwall. An Advocate for Women: The Public Life of EmmelineB. Wells, 18701920. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2006.

. Battle for the Ballot: Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 18701896. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1997.

Mani, Bonnie G. Women, Power, and Political Change. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.

May, Martha. Womens Roles in Twentieth-Century America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009.

McMillen, Sally Gregory. Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Womens RightsMovement. London: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Mead, Rebecca J. How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 18681914.