Dolls, Vassals, and Drudges - Pioneer Women in the West

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Dolls, Vassals, and Drudges—Pioneer Women in the West Get access T. A. Larson T. A. Larson Professor of American Studies William Robertson Coe at the University of Wyoming and 1970–71 president of Western History Association, delivered this paper at the Presidential Luncheon at the Eleventh Annual Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 15, 1971. Extensive documentation may be found in Dr. Larson's article, “Emancipating the West's Dolls, Vassals and Hopeless Drudges: The Origins of Woman Suffrage in the West,” in Roger Daniels, ed., Essays in Western History in Honor of T. A. Larson, University of Wyoming Publications, vol. XXXVII (Laramie, 1971). For further consideration see Dr. Larson's article, “Woman Suffrage in Western America,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 38 (Winter 1970), 7–19; and Thomas G. Alexander, “An Experiment in Progressive Legislation: The Granting of Woman Suffrage in Utah in 1870,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 38 (Winter 1970), 20–30. Background material may be found in these works: Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler, Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement (Seattle, 1969); Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States (Cambridge, 1959); Alan P. Grimes, The Puritan Ethic and Woman Suffrage (New York, 1967); William L. O'Neill, Everyone Was Brave: The Rise and Fall of Feminism in America (Chicago, 1969); Andrew A. Sinclair, The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Women (New York, 1965); William F. Sprague, Women and the West: A Short Social History (Boston, 1940); and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Ida Husted Harper, eds., History of Woman Suffrage, 6 volumes (Rochester, 1887–1922) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 3, Issue 1, January 1972, Pages 4–16, https://doi.org/10.2307/967705 Published: 01 January 1972