Photo- Cabin in South Pass City, a mining boomtown of 2,000 people in the 1860s in what is now Fremont County, Wyoming, that by 1949 was a ghost town 1 Fine Art Photo Reproduction

South Pass City has an unrelated and important role in history. One of the first arrivals to South Pass City, in 1869, was Esther Hobart Morris, who a year later became the first woman in the United States to serve as a justice of the Peace. At her urging, William H. Bright, a saloon owner and representative to the Wyoming Territorial Constitutional Convention, introduced a women's-suffrage clause into the territorial constitution. When the constitution was approved by Territorial Governor John A. Campbell in December 1869, Wyoming became the first jurisdiction in the United States to grant women the right to vote, a right which was not granted women nationally until 1920 | Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.|Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069).|Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.