In This Issue

Boys employed by Gardiner Lithographers, Salt Lake City, 1905. USHS collections.

Who actually did what and how significant was it are questions that keep history alive. It is appropriate to pose them concerning woman suffrage. The Utah suffrage story—territorial granting, federal withdrawal, and regranting at statehood has been told many times but not from the perspective of the first article in this issue: that of its small-town advocates Using the minutes of suffrage associations in Beaver and Farmington, the author demonstrates that woman's right to vote was as important to females and males in rural areas as to its advocates in Salt Lake City. If rural suffragists have been generally overlooked, so too have individuals like Charlotte Kirby, the subject of the second article. In her correspondence with Wilford Woodruff she attempted to set the record straight concerning her contribution to the suffrage movement and the intense rivalry her efforts apparently provoked in the heralded Utah suffrage leader Emmeline B. Wells.

Those who fought for suffrage quickly learned that they must overcome intense ridicule if their cause was to prevail The third article looks at the cartoons the suffrage movement (especially in tandem with Mormon polygamy) spawned in national publications from about 1870 on By 1911 the tide had turned, and the and suffrage forces began to feel the barbs of the visual satirists.

Another burning social issue of the suffrage era was child labor. The fourth article examines the extent of child labor in Utah during 1880-1920 and the various legislative acts that attempted to regulate it.

The final article focuses on a legislative issue of an entirely different kind—the successful campaign by preservation groups to prevent Congress from authorizing construction of two dams in Utah's Dinosaur National Monument The key role of Bernard DeVoto in that fight is revealed by a historian who asked who did what and how significant was it?