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Remarkable Utah Women

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Utah offers a paradox in women's history a state founded by polygamists who offered women early suffrage and encouraged career education in the nineteenth century. Remarkable Utah Women tells the stories of fifteen strong and determined women who broke through the social, cultural, or political barriers of the day. The women in these pages include Emmeline B. Wells (1828-1921), president of the Mormon Women's Relief Society, editor of Exponent, and president of the Woman Suffrage Association of Utah; and Reva Beck Bosone (1895-1983), Utah Congresswoman and the state's first female judge, who voted against the formation of the CIA and was smeared in the anticommunism crusade of the 1950s. The second edition features new biographies on historian Helen Papanikolas, who researched Utah's immigrant communities; Mae Timbimboo Parry, who collected oral histories of the Shoshone people, including about the Bear River Massacre, and helped create the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act; and Barbara Toomer, a disability rights activist. Each of these women demonstrated an independence of spirit that is as inspiring now as it was then. Read about their extraordinary lives in this captivating collection of biographies.
Christy Karras comes from a long line of stubborn women who crossed oceans, married good men, toiled on farms, and generally did whatever it took to help their descendants thrive in the Beehive State. Born and raised in northern Utah, she graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in history. A former reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune and the Associated Press and editor for Wasatch Journal magazine, she writes about arts, culture, history, travel, and recreation for publications including the Seattle Times. Her other books include Scenic Driving: Utah as well as two motorcycle touring guides coauthored with Stephen Zusy. Now living in Seattle with her husband, Bill, she returns frequently to visit her beloved family, friends, and desert-mountain landscape in Utah.
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