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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 18:50, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
... that Populist party member Emma Ghent Curtis helped Colorado become the first state to grant women suffrage by referendum? Source: "Favors woman suffrage; was active in campaign that brought woman suffrage to Colorado" [1]; also Mead, Rebecca (2004). How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914. New York University Press. pp. 62–68.
ALT1:... that Emma Ghent Curtis's 1889 novel The Administratrix features a cowboy in favor of women's suffrage? Source: "the first known cowboy hero presented outside of the dime novel tradition was a vocal woman suffrage advocate... Curtis found in the figure of the cowboy a vehicle for woman suffrage rhetoric." Lamont, Victoria (2016). "Western Violence and the Limits of Sentimental Power". Westerns: A Women's History. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN9780803290310.[2]
Overall: Interesting article and person, good to go, with a personal preference for ALT1, but both hooks are good. Kingsif (talk) 18:28, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
Interesting article and person, good to go, with a personal preference for ALT1, but both hooks are good. Kingsif (talk) 18:28, 20 April 2019 (UTC)