Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the CLUE Book Awards for Suspense, Thriller, and Mystery Novels, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.
The CIBAs Search for the Best Suspense Thrillers Novels
Chanticleer International Book Awards is celebrating the best books featuring Suspense, Thrilling Adventure, Detective Work, Private Eye, Police Procedural, and Crime Solving. We enjoy reading them all.
The 2019 CLUE Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the CLUE Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
J.L. Oakley, author of Tree Soldier – Previous Overall Grand Prize Winner announced the 2019 CLUE Book Award Winners.
This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the CLUE Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the CLUE Grand Prize Winner.
Congratulations to:
John W Feist –Blind Trust
Nancy Adair –RABYA
Janet K. Shawgo –Legacy of Lies
V. & D. Povall –Jackal in the Mirror
Joanne Jaytanie –Salvaging Truth, Hunters & Seekers, Book 1
Marian Exall –A Splintered Step
J.P. Kenna –Joel Emmanuel
The CLUE Book Awards
2019 Grand Prize Winner is
Salvaging Truth by Joanne Jaytanie
This is the badge for the 2018 CLUE Grand Prize Winner – California Sonby Timothy Burgess
How to Enter the CLUE Book Awards?
We are accepting submissions into the2020 CLUE Book Awardsuntil September 30, 2020. After this date, all entries will go into the 2021 CLUE Book Awards.
The 2020 CLUE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.
A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in October. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards for Early Readers and Picture Books, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.
The CIBAs Search for the Best Early Readers and Picture Books
Chanticleer International Book Awards Reviews is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books & Educational Books. We love them all.
The 2019 LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the Little Peeps Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
Denise Ditto, author of Bettina’s Best First Day – The Tooth Collector Fairies and 2018 Little Peeps Grand Prize Winner announced the 2019 LITTLE PEEPS Book Award Winners.
This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the Little Peeps Grand Prize Winner.
Justine Avery – What Wonders Do You See… When You Dream?
Trevor Young & Eleanor Long – Galdo’s Gift: The Boovie
Kasey J. Claytor –Pinky and The Magical Secret He Kept Inside
Carolyn Watkins – The Knock
Robert Wright Jr – Mummy in the Museum
The LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards
2019 Grand Prize Winner is
Trevor Young & Eleanor Long –
Galdo’s Gift: The Boovie
The LITTLE PEEPS Grand Prize Badge is customized for the 2019 Award Winner.
This is the badge for the 2018 Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 LITTLE PEEPS —Home From Decay Valley – The Tooth Collector Series by Denise Ditto
We are accepting submissions into the2020 LITTLE PEEPS Book Awardsuntil September 30, 2020. After this date, all entries will go into the 2021 Little Peeps Book Awards.
The 2020 LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.
A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in October. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards for Middle-Grade Readers, a division of the CIBAs.
The CIBAs Search for the Best Middle-Grade Books
Chanticleer International Book Awards is celebrating the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about eight to twelve. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Adventure. We love them all.
The 2019 GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the GERTRUDE WARNER Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
Peter Greene, author of The Jonathan Moore Adventures (and previous GOETHE CIBA Grand Prize Winner), announced the Gertrude Warner Book Award Winners.
This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the GERTRUDE WARNER BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the GERTRUDE WARNER Grand Prize Winner.
Congratulations to ALL!
Amber L. Wyss – A Flash of Fire
M.J. Evans – PINTO!
Beth Stickley – Tarnation’s Gate
Rey Clark – Legends of the Vale
Laura M. Kemp – Burnt Feathers
C.R. Stewart – Britfield and the Lost Crown
Trayner Bane – Windhollow and the Axe Breaker (Windhollows, Book 3)
Carolyn Watkins – The Knock…a collection of childhood memories
The GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards
2019 Grand Prize Winner is
The Valley of Death – Arken Freeth Series by Alex Paul
This is the badge for the 2018 Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 Gertrude Warner – Portals of Peril by Jules Luther
We are accepting submissions into the2021 Gertrude Warner Book Awardsuntil June 30, 2021.
The 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.
A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in October. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction, a division of the CIBAs
The CIBAs Search for the Best Young Adult Fiction
Chanticleer Book Reviews is celebrating the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, and Literary. We love them all.
The 2019 DANTE ROSSETTI BOOK Awards First Place Category Winners and the DANTE ROSSETTI Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
Pamela Beason, author of The ONLY WITNESS, (a previous Overall CIBA Grand Prize Winner), announced the DANTE ROSSETTI Book Award Winners.
This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the DANTE ROSSETTI BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the DANTE ROSSETTI Grand Prize Winner.
Congratulations to All!
Michelle Rene –Manufactured Witches
Nancy Thorne –Victorian Town
Susan Brown –Twelve
Sandra L Rostirolla –Cecilia
David Patneaude –Fast Backward
John Middleton–Dillion & The Curse of Arminius
Jan Von Schleh – But Not Forever
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards
2019 Grand Prize Winner is:
But Not Forever by Jan Von Schleh
This is the badge for the Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 DANTE ROSSETTI —
Whispersby Lynn Yvonne Moon
We are accepting submissions into the2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awardsuntil June 30, 2021.
The 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.
A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in October. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the PARANORMAL Book Awards for SUPERNATURAL Fiction, a division of the 2019 CIBAs
The Search for the Best Supernatural Fiction
Chanticleer International Book Awards celebrates the best books featuring magic, the supernatural , weird otherworldly stories, super humans , magical beings & supernatural entities, vampires & werewolves, angels & demons, fairies & mythological beings, magical systems and elements. We love them all.
The 2019 PARANORMAL BOOK Awards First Place Category Winners and the PARANORMAL Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
Chris Leibig, author of ALMOST MORTAL, (a Paranormal Grand Prize Winner), announced the PARANORMAL Award Winners.
This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the PARANORMAL BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the PARANORMAL Grand Prize Winner.
Congratulations to all!
Ryan J. Lyons – Drums and Dragons
Linda Watkins – The Tao of the Viper
Kaylin McFarren – High Flying
Susan Lynn Solomon – Abigail’s Window
Palmer Pickering – Moon Deeds
Jack Cullen – Runes of Steel
Joy Ross Davis – The Witch of Blacklion
D. J. Adamson – At The Edge of No Return
The Paranormal Book Awards 2019 Grand Prize Winner is:
Abigail’s Window by Susan Lynn Solomon
This is the badge for the Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 Paranormal Book Awards, The Madwoman of Preacher’s Cove by Joy Ross Davis
A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in October. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize winner of the OZMA Book Awards for FANTASY Fiction, a division of the 2019 CIBAs
Chanticleer International Book Awards celebrates the best books featuring magic, the supernatural, imaginary worlds, fantastical creatures, legendary beasts, mythical beings, or inventions of fancy that author imaginations dream up without a basis in science as we know it. Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Dragons, Unicorns, Steampunk, Diesel-punk, Gaslight Fantasy—we love them all.
The 2019 OZMA BOOK Awards First Place Category Winners and the OZMA Grand Prize winner were announced at rhe Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
J.I. Rogers, the CYGNUS Grand Prize Award Winner for her novel the KORPES AGENDA, announced the 2019 OZMA Award Winners.
OZMA Awards The Search for the Best Fantasy Fiction
This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the OZMA BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the OZMA Grand Prize Winner. Congratulations to all!
Elana A. Mugdan – Dragon Blood
Michelle Rene – Manufactured Witches
Noah Lemelson – The Sightless City
KC Cowan & Sara Cole –The Hunt for Winter
Susannah Dawn –Search for the Armor of God
Dan Zangari & Robert Zangari –A Prince’s Errand
Tim Westover – The Winter Sisters: A Novel
The OZMA BOOK AWARDS 2019 Grand Prize Winner is:
Manufactured Witches by Michelle Rene
The Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 OZMA Book Awards, Dragon Speaker by Elana Mugdan
A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in October. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
LEARN FROM THE BEST!
If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize winner of the CYGNUS Book Awards for all forms of Science Fiction, a division of the 2019 CIBAs
Chanticleer International Book Book Awards celebrates the best books featuring space, time travel, life on other planets, parallel universes, alternate reality, and all the science, technology, major social or environmental changes of the future that author imaginations can dream up. Hard sci-fi, soft sci-fi, apocalyptic, cyberpunk, time travel, genetic modification, aliens, super-humans, Interplanetary travel, dystopian, and settlers on the Galactic Frontier.
The 2019 CYGNUS BOOK Awards First Place Category Winners and the CYGNUS Grand Prize Winner were announced on Tuesday, September 8, 2020 at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast on the VCAC20 ZOOM webinar.
Elana Mugdan, the OZMA Grand Prize Winner for Fantasy Fiction for her novel, Dragon Speaker, announced the 2019 CYGNUS Award Winners.
It is our privilege and profound honor to announce the 1st in Category winners of the 2019 CYGNUS Awards, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.
This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the CYGNUS BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the CYGNUS Grand Prize Winner. Congratulations to all!
Alternate History / Time Travel: Tim Cole – Insynnium
Apocalyptic/Dystopian: J. I. Rogers – The Korpes Agenda
Hard Science Fiction: Jacques St-Malo – Cognition
Space Opera: Shami Stovall – Star Marque Rising
Soft Sci-Fi/Young Adult – Rey Clark – Titan Code Series: Dawn of Genesis
Speculative Fiction: Paul Werner – Mustang Bettie
Science Fiction: Robert M. Kerns –It Ain’t Over…
Honorable Mentions:
Andrew Lucas McIlroy – Earthling
William X. Adams – Intelligent Things
Sandra J. Jackson – Playing in the Rain
The Grand Prize Winner for the Chanticleer International Book Awards, 2019 CYGNUS Division is
Tim Cole
Insynnium
The CYGNUS Grand Prize Badge is customized for the 2019 Award Winner.
A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in October. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
Announcement and Recognition of the Chanticleer International Book Awards Winners will take place at the 2019 CIBA Ceremonies as hosted by the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference. #VCAC20
Thursday, Friday, and Sunday September 17 & 18, and 20, 2020
The 2019 CIBA Ceremonies
All 2019 CIBA Finalists will be recognized at the daily CIBA ceremonies that will announce 3 or 4 of the seventeen CIBA Divisions each day on Tuesday – Saturday at 5:00 p.m. PST.
The First Place Category Awards Winners whose works have advanced from the premier Finalists Level of Achievement will be announced the daily ceremonies.
The 2019 Grand Prize Winners for all 17 Divisions of the CIBAs plus the Overall Best Book will be announced on Sunday, September 13, 2020. The Sunday CIBA Ceremony will begin at 5:30 p.m. PST.
The CIBA Ceremonies will be ZOOMed Live and recorded at the Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.
The CIBA Ceremony Schedule of Announcements is at the end of this post along with a downloadable WORD Doc file that may be printed for your convenience.
The Links to the 2019 CIBA Finalists –
This will be the LAST ANNOUNCEMENT BEFORE THE 2019 CIBA CEREMONIES that will take place at VCAC 20.
We have tried to email each author/publisher whose works have advanced to the Premier FINALISTS LEVEL in the 2019 Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards – at least twice. This is final notification before the 2019 CIBA Ceremonies.
Chanticleer Book Reviews is seeking today’s best books featuring romantic themes and adventures of the heart, historical love affairs, perhaps a little steamy romance, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.
Find out more about the stunning beauty that Dante Rossetti painted, Jane Morris, at the end of this blog post.
Do you have a romance novel or manuscript ready for readers?
Do you want to see how it stands up to others in its category?
Then don’t delay! The CHATELAINE Book Awards division is accepting submissions from both recently published and complete manuscripts in romance and romantic fiction. But this year we’ve moved our deadline – to keep you on your toes!
The new deadline for the Chatelaine Awards is AUGUST31, 2020!
That’s right, the last day for submissions into the 2020 Chatelaine Book Awards is August 31, 2020. So, if you love Piña Coladas – and getting caught in the rain… I mean, if you like writing about those things, and other things having to do with matters of the heart, including these:
Insiders’ Tip: Other genre divisions of the Chanticleer International Book Awards have romance categories as well. Multiple submissions of the same work to a variety of CIBA writing competitions divisions are accepted. Check out our divisions here.
Please join us in congratulating and reading these top works in this diverse range of all reads Chatelaine: Romance, Chick-Lit, Women’s Fiction, Inspirational, Suspenseful, and, of course, Steamy and Sensual in the
CHATELAINE HALL of FAME!
Jane Austen Inspired:Pulse and Prejudice by Colette Saucier
Paranormal:Crimson Flamesby Ashley Robertson
Christian Inspirational Romance: Chasing Charlieby C. M. Newman
Restorative: A Path through the Gardenby Nancy LaPonzina
Classic Bodice Ripper:To Dare the Duke of Dangerfieldby Bronwen Evans
Who will win the CHATELAINE Book Awards Blue Ribbons for 2020?
The judging rounds will commence in August! Submit your works today!
The last day for submissions into the 2020 Chatelaine Book Awards is August 31, 2020. Winners will be announced at our CAC21 conference – scheduled for April
And remember our Insiders’ Tip: Other genre divisions of the Chanticleer International Book Awards have romance categories as well. Multiple submissions of the same work to a variety of CIBA writing competitions divisions are accepted. Check it out here!
A little information about the Chatelaine Book Awards icon:
We feel that Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Pre-Raphaelite painting of Jane Morris (muse and wife of William Morris) in aBlue Silk Dress captures the many moods of the Chatelaine division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards. Jane Morris (nee Jane Burden—little is known about her childhood but that it was poor and deprived) was known for her keen intelligence. William Morris fell in love with her when she sat for him as a model. She was privately tutored to become a gentleman’s wife upon their engagement. It is said that she was the inspiration for George Bernard Shaw’s character Eliza Dolittle of My Fair Lady fame. The Blue Silk Dress was painted in 1868 by Rossetti and it currently resides in the Society for Antiquaries of London. She was 29 when Rossetti painted it. Rossetti and Jane Morris became closely attached until his death in 1882. To read more about the fascinating Jane Morris, click on this Wikipedia page.
Welcome to our SPOTLIGHT on LARAMIE Book Awards, the stories that stick!
The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana / Western, Pioneer, Civil War, Frontier, and First Nations Novels. The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.
Charles M. Russell painted the cowboy scene on Chanticleer’s very own Laramie Book Awards badge. It is one of many such paintings he did that encompassed the Old American Wild West. He was an advocate for the Northern Plains Indians. Charles M. Russell also helped establish a reservation in Montana for the Chippewa people.
*More interesting facts about Laramie, Wyoming, and its historical icons are immediately after the Laramie Hall of Fame listing below. A fun read!
The Laramie Book Awards for American Western Fiction Hall of Fame First Place and Grand Prize winners!
Want to be a winner next year? The deadline to submit your book for the 2020 Laramie awards is July 31, 2020. Enter here!
Grand Prize and First Place Winners for 2019 will be announced during our Virtual Conference in early September 2020.
Any entries received on or after July 31, 2020, will be entered into the 2021 Laramie Book Awards. The Grand Prize and First Place for 2020 CIBA winners will be held on April 17, 2021.
As our deadline draws near, don’t miss this opportunity to earn the distinction your American Western readers deserve! Enter today!
The LARAMIE Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards – the CIBAs.
The 2020 winners will be announced at the CIBA Awards Ceremony, which will take place during the 2020 Live/Online Chanticleer Authors Conference. All Semi-Finalists and First Place category winners will be recognized, the first place winners will be virtually whisked up on “stage” to receive their custom ribbon and wait to see who among them will take home the Grand Prize. Covid19 has made our celebrations a bit different this year, but we still will celebrate!
As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with questions, concerns, or suggestions at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com
[20] McDougall, Walt, “Pictures in the Papers,” American Mercury, 6:21 (September 1925), 72.
What’s a Laramie?
We thought you’d never ask!
We titled the Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs) division for Western American Fiction and all things that gather around the campfire singing a lonesome tune, the Laramie Awards, after the county and city in Wyoming. You know the one, tucked into the lower right-hand corner of the state between the Snowy Mountain Range and the Laramie Mountain Range.
Yes, but why Laramie?
The small outpost was changed almost overnight when the Union Pacific Railroad moved their “Hell on Wheels” tent town from Cheyenne, Wyoming to Laramie after building the rails over the Sherman Summit at an elevation of 8,200 feet all the way to Laramie on May 4, 1868. Lawlessness and the Wild West ruled in Laramie. Luckily, “Hell on Wheels” moved on West as more track was laid down.
But where did that name Laramie come from?
Laramie was named after Jacque LaRamie, a French or French-Canadian trapper who disappeared in the mountain range that was later named for him in the early 1810s. LaRamie was one of the first Europeans to visit the area. Laramie is a French name much like DuBois, Wyoming. And, yes, it is pronounced Doo – Boys (and NOT Du Bwai).
There are several reasons we chose Laramie for our iconic Americana Book Awards. For us, and those in the know, Laramie, Wyoming immediately calls to mind the image of a Wild West town filled with rough-and-tumble cowboys. At one point, the only law in Laramie was “lawlessness. Wild Bill Hickok was even known to visit from time to time.
Here’s a picture of the man, himself, on the left with his friends, Texas Jack Omohundro (center), and Buffalo Bill Cody on the right.
Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch robbed trains and passengers with the first recorded train robbery taking place on June 2, 1899 in Wyoming. Butch was known to be very polite and dislike violence.
But that’s not the only reason we chose Laramie.
And, yes, there is yet one more reason we love Laramie!
The WOMEN!
Calamity Jane hails from Laramie, Wyoming – a skilled sharpshooter who was born to a gambler and a prostitute. She cared for her five younger siblings in Utah before traveling on to Wyoming in search of a better life. There she found work as a dance hall girl and then as a prostitute at Fort Laramie. It was there that she reinvented herself by wearing buckskins and dressing like a man. She was also known for her swearing and hard-drinking ways, but Calamity Jane was also known even more for her kind heart and helping folks out of calamities–thus her nickname.
Calamity Jane — She was the inspiration for Michelle Rene’s HOURGLASS novel.
While the men were wrestling in the streets and shooting up the place, it was really the women who brought civilization to Laramie and Wyoming Territory. They established the first school in 1869, served on a formal jury in the Spring of 1870, and were the first to gain the vote; which is exactly what Louisa Swain and 92 of her friends did on September 6, 1870 –150 years ago!
Louisa Swain, the first woman to cast a ballot and she did it in Laramie, Wyoming!
Louisa Swain – she was made of stern stuff!
Early in the morning on September 6, 1870 in Laramie, Wyoming Louisa Swain became the first woman in the world to cast a ballot under democratically enacted laws granting women equal political rights with men. In the fall of 2008, 138 years later, the U.S. Congress passes a resolution proclaiming September 6th as “Louisa Swain Day” in recognition of this historic event.The Louisa Swain Foundation
In 1870, Esther Hobart Morris (59 years old) became the first female Justice of the Peace. She served in South Pass City, Wyoming, which is to the northwest of Laramie.
Esther Morris, first female Justice of the Peace — Wyoming
Esther Morris “to pettifoggers she showed no mercy.” Wyoming Tribune
The Union’s first all-female jury was assembled in Wyoming in 1870.
Later, in 1894, Estelle Reel Meyer became Superintendent of Public Instruction, the country’s first female statewide elected official.
And the grand coup d’etat was when in 1889 when Wyoming vied for statehood—and refused to join the Union if the laws giving equality to women were not upheld, telling Congress (which wanted the suffrage law rescinded) via telegram,
“We will remain out of the Union 100 years rather than come in without the women.”
Wyoming is also the first state in the USA to allow women to own property and sign legal documents.
In 1910, Mary Godat Bellamy became the first woman to be elected to the Wyoming Legislature. Two other western states, Colorado and Idaho, elected women legislators in 1895 and 1899, respectively. Wyoming was third in the nation.
Quotes are from the Smithsonian Magazine
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Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the CLUE Book Awards for Suspense, Thriller, and Mystery Novels, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.
Chanticleer Book Reviews is seeking today’s best books featuring romantic themes and adventures of the heart, historical love affairs, perhaps a little steamy romance, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.
What’s a Laramie?
