Wyoming territory legislators passed and signed a bill into law allowing women the right to vote on this day in history, Dec. 10, 1869. Wyoming led the nation in doing so.

Dec. 3—Forget any preconceived notions about women's suffrage in Wyoming — Casper-based historian Kylie McCormick is visiting Cheyenne to set the record straight. And there's a chance that ...

Wyoming State Sen. Wendy Schuler said Tuesday’s decision by the University of Pennsylvania to ban trans athletes from ...

“Wyoming is the first place on God’s green earth which could consistently claim to be the land of the Free,” cheered Susan B. Anthony. Women's suffrage ... law until 1969. And Wyoming ...

The Wyoming Territory was formed on this day in history, July 25, 1868. It also became the first area of the U.S. to grant women the right to vote, decades before the rest of the world.

In fact, Utah and Wyoming were the first states to officially recognize that right by law. It took many more years for enough states to ratify the proposed legislation, with Tennessee the needed ...

Wyoming was the first territory in the United States to grant women the right to vote, according to the National Parks Service, after passing a law offering women suffrage in 1869 — before the ...

Known as the Equality State, Wyoming was the first to grant suffrage to women. Most notably, the first woman governor of the United States was elected to office in Wyoming. The AHC houses the papers ...

This sparsely populated Wild West frontier effectively kick-started women's suffrage by granting women the right to vote before they could elsewhere in the US. On 6 September 1870, Louisa Ann ...

“Wyoming is the first place on God’s green earth which could consistently claim to be the land of the Free,” cheered Susan B. Anthony. Women's suffrage ... law until 1969. And Wyoming ...

In 1869, Wyoming Territory was the first democracy of the modern world to recognize a woman's unqualified right to vote! CC BY Wyoming PBS, State of Equality: Wyoming Women's Suffrage Trailer ...

On Dec. 10, 1869, John Campbell, governor of the Wyoming Territory, approved the first law in U.S. history explicitly granting women the right to vote. Commemorated in later years as ...