we are in the women's hallway of the laramie plains museum in the evanston mansion in. this hallway we begin to tell you the story of why wyoming was so granting women this right to vote, hold property and. our elected office, december 10th of 1869, our wyoming legislature dictate it this and it was signed by governor granting women this really so remarkable that we have a copy of this they have it at the capitol but we have this copy that is so extraordinary. see that writing that fanciful writing said what was happening in the west because of this act december 10th 1869. giving women full rights alongside men. we the first woman voter in the world, louisa gardiner swain. we had the first woman bailiff, martha simon's boys. we had the first women on a jury we had all of wyoming's women able to be in the legislature. this was mary gadot bellamy. we had esther hobart, morris, who was the first woman justice of the peace out of south pass city. we had nellie tayloe ross first woman governor in the world. all of these were the fallout from beautiful suffrage act december 1