first state with full women s suffrage. no surprise that today wyoming is known as the equality state. final note here, while we typically think of women s suffrage as an experiment focused on the east coast, wyoming was not an outlier. the next eight states to grant full suffrage to rwomen were alo western states. new york didn t actually approve, give women the right to vote until 1917. 50 years after wyoming. joining me now to talk about this, renee, associate professor of history at the university of wyoming. she joins me on skype. she s co-editor of the book women on the north american plains. renee, good morning to you. good morning. so this was the movement it was interesting, the movement had to do as much with essentially trying to get population, they didn t have enough, they thought, to make a state. but what else? what else did we miss in our intro there? i think what s really important is to look at really the origins of the women s