How the vote was won
Subtitle: woman suffrage in the western United States, 1868-1914
By: Rebecca J. Mead.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage -- West (U.S.) -- History
Description: "In this new study, Rebecca J. Mead shows that western suffrage came about as the result of the unsettled state of regional politics, the complex nature of western race relations, broad alliances between suffragists and farmer-labor-progressive reformers, and sophisticated activism by western women. She highlights suffrage racism and elitism as major problems for the movement, and places special emphasis on the political adaptability of western suffragists whose improvisational tactics earned them progress."

"How the Vote Was Won reintegrates this important region into national suffrage history and helps explain the ultimate success of this radical reform."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-262) and index.