Fact: Wyoming was the first state to grant women the right to vote.


The other states had come to him in wonderment, and gawked with the same sort of privileged curiosity they used for tribesmen. Women rode astride horses in his house. They raised cattle and ran businesses, but that was relatively normal for a western territory.

It was that they were voting which had all the other states interested, with reactions ranging from curious to livid. They told him it was improper and dangerous. If he wanted any chance at becoming a state, he'd repeal that decision immediately.

Wyoming shrugged, and replied that maybe there were better options for him than statehood.