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  In Colorado Caroline Romney started The Durango Record in 1880. Mrs. Laura DeForce Gordon issued the Daily Leader in Stockton, California, in 1874, and in Wyoming the Platte Valley Lyre of Saratoga was published by sisters Gertrude M. and Laura C. Huntington.

  In 1897 The Idaho Woman was published in Caldwell, Idaho. The ladies of Caldwell operated the paper on behalf of suffrage and temperance.

  And in Topeka, Kansas, Mrs. Carrie Nation promoted her prohibition and women’s suffrage causes in the Smasher’s Mail, which began publication in 1901.

  (Preceding information from Newspapering in the Old West by Robert F. Karolevitz, Superior Publishing Company, Seattle, Washington, 1965.)

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  Table of Contents

  Cover Page

  Excerpt

  Dear Reader

  Title Page

  Books by Lynna Banning

  About the Author

  Dedication

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  Chapter Twenty-One

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  Epilogue

  Author Note

  Copyright