Lindsay Linton Buk

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Women Road Warriors · The Women Who Shaped the Equality State · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

Esther was incredibly active on the national suffrage movement and was really involved in the suffrage associations across the country.

first female bailiff, first female jurors.

What I want to say about that legislation was it wasn't like this unanimous vote.

It actually came down to a tie-breaking vote.

And because we had so many... The West really became a place...

where women came to kind of leave the structure of society and more of those rules.

And so you had a lot of these suffragists, and they were advocating.

They were advocating to their legislators.

So during that really transformational legislation, it wasn't like...

all the men in Wyoming's territory government at that time were unanimously voting for it.

It came down to a single tie-breaking vote, and it is believed that one of the other big suffragists in Wyoming at the time, who did a lot of advocacy, was very involved politically, that she was a big part of kind of swaying that vote, and a lot of the women in those communities were.

But nevertheless, you know, it did kind of pave the way for women to have enormous power.

compared to their American contemporaries.

And, you know, it was a lot of these female firsts, but it was also, you know, women in small towns.

So in my book, I tell 25 contemporary stories, but then I do tell 20 historical vignettes of women from that time.

And so women became small town mayors.

They would be the game warden or a county clerk in their town.

And that, again, was because that legislation not only recognized women's right to vote, but also recognized women's right to hold office, which is incredible.

And that gave us our official state motto, which is equal rights.

We're known today as the Cowboy State.

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