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Buffalo Bill Cody’s role in the fight for voting rights for American women will be shared during a Monday talk in Cody.
Jeremy Johnston from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West will …
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Buffalo Bill Cody’s role in the fight for voting rights for American women will be shared during a Monday talk in Cody.
Jeremy Johnston from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West will present a talk titled, “Buffalo Bill, Wyoming, and the Women’s Suffrage Movement,” during a Pahaska Corral of Westerners meeting.
The group’s meeting starts at 6 p.m. at the Governors Room of the Irma Hotel, with a no-host dinner starting at 6 p.m., followed by the presentation around 7 p.m. Both the meal and the program are open to the public. Due to limited seating, guests are asked to RSVP by emailing Lynn Houze at ljhcody@tctwest.net.
In 1894, a female reporter from the New York Recorder interviewed Buffalo Bill in Brooklyn. During the interview, the journalist asked Buffalo Bill, “Well, sir, have you any ideas on women’s suffrage? This is the question of the hour.” Buffalo Bill replied, “I am in favor of women voting.”
The female journalist exclaimed, “Hurrah! Colonel, you’re on our side!”
That same year, Buffalo Bill invested in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin, where he founded the town of Cody. Through the remainder of his career, Buffalo Bill referred to the unqualified success of recognizing women’s voting rights in Wyoming to support the national suffrage movement.
Johnston will discuss this issue and Buffalo Bill’s role in using his connections to Wyoming to advance the future passage of the Women’s Suffrage Amendment in 1920.
Johnston is the Hal and Naoma Tate Endowed Chair and Curator of Western History, the Ernest J. Goppert Curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum, and, the Managing Editor of the Papers of William F. Cody. Johnston attended the University of Wyoming, from which he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1993 and his Master of Arts in 1995. Johnston earned his Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2017.
The Pahaska Corral of Westerners is the local chapter of Westerner International, an organization dedicated to stimulating interest and research in the history of the American West.
