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Show in ,. .., H.M.MMtmMHMMMUMMi Mrs. Lee Gives Book Review On Wednesday, March 12, Mrs. J. Bracken Lee gave a talk at the Birthday Luncheon Lunch-eon celebration for the 116th Anniversary of the Monument Park Ward. She discussed "Wonderful Women of the West." The talk was in the form of a book review, but Mrs. Lee, herself an inveterate reader, has done much additional addi-tional research in connection with these women, and has added many anecdotep from time to time as she has uncovered uncov-ered them. Of the six women mentioned in tht book, two were Utah women, Mrs. Emmaline B. Wells, and Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon. The other women were . Sacajawea, which means 'Puller 'Pul-ler of a Boat," who was tho Indian Woman who led tht Lewis and Clark expedition; Narcissa Prentis Whitman who was the wife of Marcus Whitman; Whit-man; Eliza Hart Spaulding, wife of Rev. Herbert Spaulding; Spauld-ing; and Esther Hobart Morris, Mor-ris, who pased the first woman suffrage bill through the Wyoming Wyo-ming legislature. According to Mrs. Lee, Dr. Avard Fairbanks has completed work on the statue of Mrs. Morris, and the statue is expected ex-pected to be completed this year. Mrs. Morris is Wyoming's first choice for the Hall of Fame. |