Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Living the Legacy 1848-1998. Western Women's Suffrage. Women of the American West led the nation and the world into the struggle for female voting rights, known as the "suffrage movement.
" This remarkable suffrage success story began in 1869, when Wyoming Territory approved full and equal suffrage for scarcely one thousand women. Contagious excitement for women's rights spread quickly across the Rocky Mountain landscape. "This Shall be the Land for Women! " cheered western journalist Caroline Nichols Churchill upon Colorado's stunning victory by popular vote in 1893. Susan B. Anthony Center. Wednesdays in Mississippi.