Colorado Coalition for Women's History
Come ye disconsolates wherever you languish,
come to Colorado and cast in
your lot. Here the sun shines brightest and there is hope for all women...
Come ye
sinners
poor and needy, come to Colorado now, this shall be the
land for women.
Caroline Nichols Churchill
Historical Figures
Josephine
Roche
Eliza Routt
Preserving Your Family Treasures
Women's History Links
Annual Meeting
Photo
Courtesy of Denver Public Library
Not without reason did journalist Caroline N. Churchill express her emotions
excerpted in the
quote above.
From its beginning as a sparsely populated territory and through its early
years of
statehood, Colorado was a place where women experienced life and helped shape their destiny
with the
opportunities that only the West
could offer. In 1893, this state of less than 20 years
became only the
second in the nation to grant women the
right to vote, and offered firm hope to
those in the East who would not win
that battle for many years to come.
Homesteaders,
ranchers, educators, physicians…here in Colorado, women
experienced almost every
occupation imaginable in a time when much of the world measured women by
what they
couldn’t do, rather
than by what they could do.
This web site is dedicated to preserving the
legacy of Colorado’s women in
history. If you’d like to find out
more about us, please visit
our “Who We Are” page on this site. If you
would like to join us, check out the
Membership
page. We plan to add to our biography page here in the near
future, but until then,
www.coloradowomenshistory.org is a great place to start any exploration of
Colorado women’s
history.
(The sites on our
Links page are also well
worth visiting!)