The Mother of Women Suffrage in Wyoming

Her son, newspaper editor Ed Slack of Cheyenne, labeled her “the mother of women suffrage in Wyoming,” upon her death in 1902. Stories have long persisted that in 1869, she invited influential Democrats ad Republicans to a tea party at her home and wouldn't let them go until they'd pledged to vote for suffrage. And indeed, in 1869, Wyoming Territory because the first government in the nation to give women the vote. But the story of her tea party is now in dispute. Some historians contend she