Rolfe, _Nevada City_; Mrs. Elizabeth Condy, _Stockton_; Miss E. S.
Sleeper, _Mountain View_; Mrs. Laura J. Watkins, Mrs. Damon, _Santa
Clara_; Mrs. Dr. Kilpatrick, _San Mateo_; Mrs. S. G. Waterhouse,
Drs. Kellogg and Bearby, Mrs. M. J. Young, Mrs. E. B. Crocker, and
others, _Sacramento_; Mrs. Mary Jewett, Mr. and Mrs. Howell,
_Healdsburgh_; Mrs. Lattimer, _Windsor_; Mr. and Mrs. Denio, Mrs.
E. L. Hale, _Vallejo_; Mrs. J. Lewellyn, Mrs. Potter, _St. Helena_;
Mr. and Mrs. J. Egglesson, _Napa_; Henry and Abigail Bush,
_Martinez_; Rowena Granice Steele, _Merced_; Mrs. Jennie Phelps
Purvis, Mrs. Lapham and daughter, _Modesto_.

CHAPTER LIV.

THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.

The Long Marches Westward--Abigail Scott Duniway--Mary Olney
Brown--The First Steps in Oregon--Col. C. A. Reed--Judge G. W.
Lawson--1870--The New Northwest, 1871--Campaign, Mrs. Duniway and
Miss Anthony--They Address the Legislature in Washington
Territory--Hon. Elwood Evans--Suffrage Society Organized at
Olympia and at Portland--Before the Oregon Legislature--Donation
Land Act--Hon. Samuel Corwin's Suffrage Bill--Married Woman's
_Sole_ Traders' Bill--Temperance Alliance--Women Rejected--Major
Williams Fights their Battles and Triumphs--Mrs. H. A.
Loughary--Progressive Legislation, 1874--Mob-Law in Jacksonville,
1879--Dr. Mary A. Thompson--Constitutional Convention,
1878--Woman Suffrage Bill, 1880--Hon. W. C. Fulton--Women
Enfranchised in Washington Territory, Nov. 15, 1883--Great
Rejoicing, Bonfires, Ratification Meetings--Constitutional
Amendment Submitted in Oregon and Lost, June, 1884--Suffrage by
Legislative Enactment Lost--Fourth of July Celebrated at
Vancouvers--Benjamin and Mary Olney Brown--Washington
Territory--Legislation in 1867-68 Favorable to Women--Mrs. Brown
Attempts to Vote and is Refused--Charlotte Olney French--Women
Vote at Grand Mound and Black River Precincts,
1870--Retrogressive Legislation, 1871--Abby H. Stuart in
Land-Office--Hon. William H. White--Idaho and Montana.

In the spring of 1852, when the great _furor_ for going West was at
its height, in the long trails of miners, merchants and farmers
wending their way in ox-carts and canvas-covered wagons over the
vast plains, mountains and rivers, two remarkable women, then in
the flush of youth, might have been seen; one, Abigail Scott
Duniway, destined to leave an ind