| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1 | The History Cooperative

Rebecca J. Mead. How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868–1914. New York: New York University Press. 2004. Pp. x, 273. $45.00.
In this superb study of woman suffrage in the western states and territories, Rebecca J. Mead convincingly demonstrates the importance of the region to understanding the success of the national suffrage movement. She accomplishes this by skillfully connecting the vicissitudes of the suffrage movement to the fluidity of western regional politics. Moreover, her well-researched account introduces the reader to a wonderful array of relatively obscure and radical western suffrage leaders such as Emily Pitts-Stevens of San Francisco, Caroline Churchill of Colorado, and May Arkwright Hutton of Oregon.	1
Mead does a nice job of organizing her discussion of woman suffrage campaigns within broader themes of political developments in the West and the nation, in particular Reconstruction, Populism, and Progressivism. During Reconstruction, for instance, debates over citizenship and suffrage became entangled with territorial organization and campaigns for statehood in Wyoming, Utah, and Washington. In addition, suffragists sought unsuccessfully to use both the Fourteenth Amendment's definition of national citizenship and the Fifteenth Amendment's guarantee of voting rights for black males to ensure a wholesale right to vote for white women.	. . .

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