| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868–1914. By Rebecca J. Mead. (New York: New York University Press, 2004. xii, 273 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8147-5676-X.)

The American West as the setting for a distinct history of woman suffrage agitation is a familiar construct. No other region has attracted comparable attention: T. A. Larson, Beverly Beeton, Billie Barnes Jensen, and G. Thomas Edwards are some of the historians who have worked this ground. The West stands out from the national story because success came earlier there. Women voted in Wyoming in 1869, Utah in 1870, Washing-ton in 1883, Colorado in 1893, and Idaho in 1896. Before 1915, all the western states and territories save New Mexico enfranchised female citizens. Western women not only voted before others in the United States, they also won in the hardest way—what Susan B. Anthony described as school district by school district, without the aid of the federal government.

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