Equality at the Ballot Box: Votes for Women on the Northern Great Plains. Edited by Lori Ann Lahlum and Molly R Rozum.

On December 10, 1869, the governor of Wyoming Territory signed the first full woman suffrage bill in the history of the United States. Suffragists in neighboring territories of Montana and Dakota believed their prospects were similarly bright. Over the next twenty years efforts to secure the votes for women met only limited success. The fight for woman suffrage on the Northern Great Plains would take another three decades.

In Equality at the Ballot Box, editors Lori Ann Lahlum and Molly P. Rozum have compiled a set of original essays that illuminate key aspects of the movement.

Hardback.

410 pages.

ISBN: 978-1-941813-26-3

About the author: 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 Grait 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. 

Image description: The cover illustration has a very light blue background. The title is printed in big letters at the top of the cover. Below that there is a photograph featuring a group of women, with a sign that reads "Votes for Women Leagu4e" Below the photograph the subtitle and editors' names are displayed.