Lori Ann Lahlum is professor of history at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where she teaches courses on the American West, environmental history, Minnesota history, western women’s and gender history, and political history in the northern grasslands. With Betty Bergland, she edited Norwegian American Women: Migration, Communities, and Identities. Her current research focuses on Norwegian immigrant women in the northern grasslands and Richard Olsen Richards, a leader of the progressive reform movement in South Dakota. Lahlum grew up on a farm in LaMoure County, North Dakota.Molly P. Rozum is associate professor and Ronald M. Nelson Chair of Great Plains and South Dakota history at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. She teaches courses on United States women, the Great Plains, the American West, and South Dakota. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests center on comparative United States-Canadian northern grasslands, and her book, Grasslands Grown: Sense of Place and Regional Identity on North America’s Canadian Prairies and American Plains, 1870–1950, is forthcoming. Rozum is a native of Mitchell, South Dakota.

“Equality at the Ballot Box makes an important contribution to western women’s history and the history of woman suffrage. . . . [This anthology] is both an informative overview and a composite mosaic of suffrage on the northern plains that raises new questions for future research, for which this volume lays essential groundwork.”—Elizabeth Jameson, professor emeritus of history at University of Calgary and past president of the Western History Association“The authors have dug deep into the archives, scoured newspapers, and searched secondary sources for materials. . . . A focus on the importance of the Northern Great Plains is long overdue.”—Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, historian for the NASA Johnson Space Center

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: “We Will Never Halt till the Prize is Won”: Suffrage on the Northern Great Plains, Molly P. Rozum and Lori Ann LahlumPart 1 “So Great an Innovation”: Woman Suffrage in Wyoming, Jennifer HeltonQuiet Voices in the Prairie Wind: The Politics of Woman Suffrage in North Dakota, 1873–1920, Barbara Handy-MarchelloThe Marathon of Montana Suffrage: A Commitment to Civic Activism, Jennifer J. HillDefending Separate Spheres: Anti-Suffrage Women in South Dakota Suffrage Campaigns, Paula M. NelsonSnapshotsA Sentiment of Justice: The Woman Suffrage Question and Wyoming Statehood, Amy L. McKinneyThe South Dakota Scandinavian Temperance Society and Woman Suffrage, Lori Ann LahlumFrauenstimmrecht in Süd-Dakota: German-Language Newspapers in South Dakota on Woman Suffrage, Kelly O’DeaPart 2“The Women Voted”: School Suffrage in Dakota Territory and South Dakota, Ruth Page JonesEthnicity and Woman Suffrage on the South Dakota Plains, Sara EggeCitizenship, Civilization, and Property: The 1890 South Dakota Vote on Woman Suffrage and Indian Suffrage, Molly P. Rozum“Wake Up, Wyoming”: The Push to Ratify the Susan B. Anthony Amendment in the Northern Great Plains States, Amy L. McKinneySnapshots Martha Symons Boies Atkinson: First Woman Bailiff, Renée LaegreidKate Selby Wilder Dresses the Part, Ann W. BraatenJeanette Rankin on the Road, Cody Dodge EwertBlack Hills Suffragist Mabel Rewman, Kelly KirkPart 3Cora Smith Eaton and North Dakota Woman Suffrage, 1888–1897, Kristin Mapel Bloomberg“A Right to Help Make the Laws”: Helen Piotopowaka Clarke, Virginia Billedeaux, and Blackfeet Empowerment, Dee GarceauKate Selby Wilder: Clubwoman, Suffragist, Temperance Activist, and City Commissioner, Ann W. BraatenContributorsIndex

Lori Ann Lahlum is professor of history at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where she teaches courses on the American West, environmental history, Minnesota history, western women’s and gender history, and political history in the northern grasslands. With Betty Bergland, she edited Norwegian American Women: Migration, Communities, and Identities. Her current research focuses on Norwegian immigrant women in the northern grasslands and Richard Olsen Richards, a leader of the progressive reform movement in South Dakota. Lahlum grew up on a farm in LaMoure County, North Dakota.Molly P. Rozum is associate professor and Ronald M. Nelson Chair of Great Plains and South Dakota history at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. She teaches courses on United States women, the Great Plains, the American West, and South Dakota. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests center on comparative United States-Canadian northern grasslands, and her book, Grasslands Grown: Sense of Place and Regional Identity on North America’s Canadian Prairies and American Plains, 1870–1950, is forthcoming. Rozum is a native of Mitchell, South Dakota.

“Equality at the Ballot Box makes an important contribution to western women’s history and the history of woman suffrage. . . . [This anthology] is both an informative overview and a composite mosaic of suffrage on the northern plains that raises new questions for future research, for which this volume lays essential groundwork.”—Elizabeth Jameson, professor emeritus of history at University of Calgary and past president of the Western History Association“The authors have dug deep into the archives, scoured newspapers, and searched secondary sources for materials. . . . A focus on the importance of the Northern Great Plains is long overdue.”—Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, historian for the NASA Johnson Space Center

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: “We Will Never Halt till the Prize is Won”: Suffrage on the Northern Great Plains, Molly P. Rozum and Lori Ann LahlumPart 1 “So Great an Innovation”: Woman Suffrage in Wyoming, Jennifer HeltonQuiet Voices in the Prairie Wind: The Politics of Woman Suffrage in North Dakota, 1873–1920, Barbara Handy-MarchelloThe Marathon of Montana Suffrage: A Commitment to Civic Activism, Jennifer J. HillDefending Separate Spheres: Anti-Suffrage Women in South Dakota Suffrage Campaigns, Paula M. NelsonSnapshotsA Sentiment of Justice: The Woman Suffrage Question and Wyoming Statehood, Amy L. McKinneyThe South Dakota Scandinavian Temperance Society and Woman Suffrage, Lori Ann LahlumFrauenstimmrecht in Süd-Dakota: German-Language Newspapers in South Dakota on Woman Suffrage, Kelly O’DeaPart 2“The Women Voted”: School Suffrage in Dakota Territory and South Dakota, Ruth Page JonesEthnicity and Woman Suffrage on the South Dakota Plains, Sara EggeCitizenship, Civilization, and Property: The 1890 South Dakota Vote on Woman Suffrage and Indian Suffrage, Molly P. Rozum“Wake Up, Wyoming”: The Push to Ratify the Susan B. Anthony Amendment in the Northern Great Plains States, Amy L. McKinneySnapshots Martha Symons Boies Atkinson: First Woman Bailiff, Renée LaegreidKate Selby Wilder Dresses the Part, Ann W. BraatenJeanette Rankin on the Road, Cody Dodge EwertBlack Hills Suffragist Mabel Rewman, Kelly KirkPart 3Cora Smith Eaton and North Dakota Woman Suffrage, 1888–1897, Kristin Mapel Bloomberg“A Right to Help Make the Laws”: Helen Piotopowaka Clarke, Virginia Billedeaux, and Blackfeet Empowerment, Dee GarceauKate Selby Wilder: Clubwoman, Suffragist, Temperance Activist, and City Commissioner, Ann W. BraatenContributorsIndex

Lori Ann Lahlum is professor of history at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where she teaches courses on the American West, environmental history, Minnesota history, western women’s and gender history, and political history in the northern grasslands. With Betty Bergland, she edited Norwegian American Women: Migration, Communities, and Identities. Her current research focuses on Norwegian immigrant women in the northern grasslands and Richard Olsen Richards, a leader of the progressive reform movement in South Dakota. Lahlum grew up on a farm in LaMoure County, North Dakota.Molly P. Rozum is associate professor and Ronald M. Nelson Chair of Great Plains and South Dakota history at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. She teaches courses on United States women, the Great Plains, the American West, and South Dakota. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests center on comparative United States-Canadian northern grasslands, and her book, Grasslands Grown: Sense of Place and Regional Identity on North America’s Canadian Prairies and American Plains, 1870–1950, is forthcoming. Rozum is a native of Mitchell, South Dakota.

“Equality at the Ballot Box makes an important contribution to western women’s history and the history of woman suffrage. . . . [This anthology] is both an informative overview and a composite mosaic of suffrage on the northern plains that raises new questions for future research, for which this volume lays essential groundwork.”—Elizabeth Jameson, professor emeritus of history at University of Calgary and past president of the Western History Association“The authors have dug deep into the archives, scoured newspapers, and searched secondary sources for materials. . . . A focus on the importance of the Northern Great Plains is long overdue.”—Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, historian for the NASA Johnson Space Center

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: “We Will Never Halt till the Prize is Won”: Suffrage on the Northern Great Plains, Molly P. Rozum and Lori Ann LahlumPart 1 “So Great an Innovation”: Woman Suffrage in Wyoming, Jennifer HeltonQuiet Voices in the Prairie Wind: The Politics of Woman Suffrage in North Dakota, 1873–1920, Barbara Handy-MarchelloThe Marathon of Montana Suffrage: A Commitment to Civic Activism, Jennifer J. HillDefending Separate Spheres: Anti-Suffrage Women in South Dakota Suffrage Campaigns, Paula M. NelsonSnapshotsA Sentiment of Justice: The Woman Suffrage Question and Wyoming Statehood, Amy L. McKinneyThe South Dakota Scandinavian Temperance Society and Woman Suffrage, Lori Ann LahlumFrauenstimmrecht in Süd-Dakota: German-Language Newspapers in South Dakota on Woman Suffrage, Kelly O’DeaPart 2“The Women Voted”: School Suffrage in Dakota Territory and South Dakota, Ruth Page JonesEthnicity and Woman Suffrage on the South Dakota Plains, Sara EggeCitizenship, Civilization, and Property: The 1890 South Dakota Vote on Woman Suffrage and Indian Suffrage, Molly P. Rozum“Wake Up, Wyoming”: The Push to Ratify the Susan B. Anthony Amendment in the Northern Great Plains States, Amy L. McKinneySnapshots Martha Symons Boies Atkinson: First Woman Bailiff, Renée LaegreidKate Selby Wilder Dresses the Part, Ann W. BraatenJeanette Rankin on the Road, Cody Dodge EwertBlack Hills Suffragist Mabel Rewman, Kelly KirkPart 3Cora Smith Eaton and North Dakota Woman Suffrage, 1888–1897, Kristin Mapel Bloomberg“A Right to Help Make the Laws”: Helen Piotopowaka Clarke, Virginia Billedeaux, and Blackfeet Empowerment, Dee GarceauKate Selby Wilder: Clubwoman, Suffragist, Temperance Activist, and City Commissioner, Ann W. BraatenContributorsIndex