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When I was in fourth grade, my mother decided to take a one-year professional sabbatical to research and write about how women first got the vote, which they did in Wyoming Territory in 1869. I started as her "give the kid a job so she doesn't drive me batty" research assistant, and by the time I was in college, I was integrated into her work. Again, the stories floated up: Amalia Post, a woman of great independence and an early suffragette, Esther Hobart Morris, first woman justice of the peace, and William Bright, who wrote the woman suffrage act, among many others.