bills saw them defeated and tried tried tried again. in the 1870s and '80s, activists such as abigail scott dunaway, there she is, much later she, she really is, she's the elizabeth cady stanton of the west, and there she is visiting with the great women herself. women such as abigail fought on in legislatures and courtrooms to improve women's rights to own property and divorce as well as vote. back abigail became a suffragist with her husband pressed a friend of his and countersigned a load of his friend, the friend defaulted on the loan and mrs. dunaway home which she shared with her five or six children, the bank seized their home. she was so outraged, she it worked a dog establishing i think their second firm, establishing the farm and giving things up and going, that she on the spot became a suffragist. and again as was true often of the early feminists, what she really wanted was women's property rights. because women have no money,, they had no power. well, so abigail is very busy and courtrooms trying to make her case but other western women continue to accumulate political power by moving from community building to large scale social reform which was also catching on