The Revenge

Laramie, Wyoming Territory, 1889Toby McDonald has never owned a farthing in his life. Unexpectedly he becomes the owner of a large ranch west of Laramie. He vows to make a success of it in memory of his sister and her little boy. The image of a beautiful woman playing the piano fills his dreams.Raymond Warner comes to Laramie in pursuit of the man he thinks killed his father. The short stay in the small western town and his plans change when both he and Toby become entangled in a fight against outlaws, killers, and other unsavory characters. The whole story gets even political ramifications as people in town debate the possible consequences of Wyoming Territory joining the Union. Historical NoteWyoming Territory became a state adhering to US in 1890. At the time, Wyoming’s constitution allowed women to vote while the US constitution didn’t.Wyoming voted women’s suffrage into law in Dec 1869 and in 1870 Louisa Swain was the first woman to vote in the country. Women were allowed to serve in juries and had other rights also, and the first woman, Esther Hobart Morris was appointed as justice of peace in 1870.The US Congress didn’t allow a constitution that included suffrage for women and asked the Territory to drop it as a condition to be part of the Union. The state legislature made a point of keeping the suffrage in the constitution no matter what.In the end, in 1890 Wyoming became the forty-forth state of the US, the first to allow women to vote. Other western states did the same later on, although officially only in Aug 1920 it was approved and ratified by the Congress as the nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.


Genre: Western