page_title: Eva Emery Dye
section_title: Suffrage
hierarchical_section_title: Eva Emery Dye / Literary career / Suffrage
caption_attribution_description: Statue of Sacajawea in Washington Park, viewed from the south. It was sculpted by Alice Cooper from Denver, Colorado and unveiled in 1905 at the Lewis &amp; Clark Centennial Exposition. It depicts Sacajawea pointing the way westward. See also Eva Emery Dye.
context_page_description: Eva Emery Dye was an American writer, historian, and prominent member of the Women's Suffrage movement. As the author of several historical novels, fictional yet thoroughly researched, she is credited with "romanticizing the historic West, turning it into a poetic epic of expanding civilization." Her best known work, The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis & Clark, is notable for being the first to present Sacagawea as a historically significant character in her own right.
context_section_description: The book's popularity also brought political ramifications. As Dye noted in her book, Sacagawea had been given a vote in a key decision of the expedition: whether or not to build Fort Clatsop and spend the winter on the Pacific coast.  This led to "the Madonna of her race" being championed as a symbol of the burgeoning women's suffrage movement, which Dye enthusiastically supported. In keeping with her book's suggestion of a memorial to Sacagawea, a Statue Association was founded in Portland, Oregon, with Dye serving as its president. In this capacity she issued appeals to women's groups across the country, and coordinated the fundraising sale of commemorative "Sacajawea spoons" and "Sacajawea buttons."
  In 1905 The National American Woman's Suffrage Association, convening in Portland, unveiled a statue, Sacajawea and Jean-Baptiste, by sculptor Alice Cooper of Denver. In her opening address, Susan B. Anthony remarked:
  
  This is the first time in history that a statue has been erected in memory of a woman who accomplished patriotic deeds... This recognition of the assistance rendered by a woman in the discovery of this great section of the country is but the beginning of what is due...
  Following the ceremony, Dye formally presented the statue to the soon-to-open Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, where it was seen by an estimated three million visitors. It currently resides in Portland's Washington Park at 45.521469°N 122.70227°W.
caption: Sacajawea statue in Washington Park pointing the way westward
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