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Conservation Movement, 1870–1940
The involvement of western women in all types of conservation activities is often overlooked or even ignored. Yet women in the trans-Mississippi West, including Alaska and Hawaii, began to participate in the early conservation movement shortly after the end of the Civil War in 1864. Although these women numbered in the thousands, they are largely invisible in environmental history because they were not active in the same ways as men, that is, in holding political office, voting, lobbying, and speech-making. Often excluded from the political realm, women used such socially acceptable “female” interests as writing, drawing, and joining reform organizations to put their conservation ideas into effect. Looking at women's proclivities reveals a huge number of women dedicated to some aspect of conservation.
Because middleand upper-class ...
- Agriculture/Ranching
- Arts and Letters: Artists, Poets, Writers
- Anzaldua, Gloria E.
- Bird, Gloria
- Bower, B. M.
- Butler, Octavia
- Callahan, Sophia Alice
- Cather, Willa
- Cleaveland, Agnes Morley
- Coel, Margaret
- Crow Dog, Mary
- Darden, Fannie Baker
- Davis, Mollie Evelyn Moore
- Farnham, Eliza Wood Burhans
- Flanner, Hildegarde
- Foote, Mary Hallock
- Hale, Janet Campbell
- Hasselstrom, Linda M.
- Hogan, Linda
- Hubble, Grace Lillian Burke
- Ivins, Molly
- Jackson, Helen Hunt
- Jaramillo, Cleofas Martínez
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Naranjo-Morse, Nora
- Red Shirt, Delphine
- Sandoz, Mari (Marie Susette)
- Sewell, Helen Moore
- Silko, Leslie Marmon
- Sinclair, Bertha Muzzy
- St. Johns, Adela Rogers
- Stewart, Elinore Pruitt
- Tan, Amy
- Underhill, Ruth Murray
- Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
- Williams, Jeanne
- Winnemucca, Sarah
- Woody, Elizabeth
- Education: Teachers, Librarians, Professors, Researchers
- Entrepreneurs
- Law/Lawyers, Judges, Police, Incarceration, Crime, Legislators, Public Officials
- Adams, Annette Abbott
- Arizona Political Women
- Baird, Lourdes G.
- Berzon, Marsha L.
- Bird, Rose Elizabeth
- Blanton, Annie Webb
- Boxer, Barbara
- Brown, Janice Rogers
- Bullock, Georgia
- Caulfield, Barbara A.
- Chesney, Maxine M.
- Farenthold, Frances “Sissy” Tarlton
- Ferguson, Miriam “Ma” Amanda Wallace
- Gonzalez, Irma Elsa
- Gordon, Laura de Force
- Hall, Cynthia Holcomb
- Hamilton, Phyllis J.
- Huff, Marilyn M.
- Hufstedler, Shirley Ann Mount
- Hughes, Sarah Tilghman
- Illston, Susan Yvonne
- In Penitentiaries
- Jail Matrons in Los Angeles
- Jordan, Barbara
- Keep, Judith N.
- Kennard, Joyce
- King, Charlotte Winter
- Laporte, Elizabeth D.
- Manella, Nora Margaret
- Marshall, Consuelo Bland
- McDonald, Juanita Millender
- McLaughlin, Linda Hodge
- Meharg, Emma Grigsby
- Neal, Margie Elizabeth
- Nelson, Dorothy Wright
- O'Leary, Kathleen E.
- Patel, Marilyn Hall
- Pfaelzer, Mariana R.
- Phillips, Virginia A.
- Priest, Ivy Baker
- Prostitution
- Prostitution in 19th-Century Texas
- Prostitution in Salt Lake City
- Rankin, Jeannette
- Richards, Ann
- Rymer, Pamela Ann
- Smith, Fern M.
- Snyder, Christina A.
- Stotler, Alicemarie Huber
- Ulfig, Cynthia
- Wardlaw, Kim McLane
- Waters, Maxine
- Weddington, Sarah Ragle
- Wells, Alice Stebbins
- Werdegar, Kathryn M.
- Wilken, Claudia Ann
- Wilmans, Edith Eunice Therrel
- Pioneers
- Public Performance
- Religion
- Women's Organizations/Organizational Leadership
- Arizona Political Women
- Buffalo Calf Road
- Cleghorn, Mildred Imach
- Clubs (Women's) in the West
- Clubwomen of Boise
- Clubwomen of Denver
- Clubwomen of Huntington Beach
- Clubwomen of Los Angeles
- Clubwomen of Salt Lake City
- Conservation Movement, 1870–1940
- Doheny, Estelle
- Duniway, Abigail Scott
- Mission Indian Federation
- Moreno, Luisa
- Native American Protest Movements in the 20th Century
- Philanthropy in the American West
- Woman Suffrage in the West
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