Chris Enss

Chris Enss is a New York Times bestselling author, a scriptwriter and comedienne who has written for television and film. She has also performed on cruise ships and on stage. Enss has worked with award-winning musicians, writers, directors, producers and as a screenwriter for Tricor Entertainment, but her passion is for telling the stories of the men and women who shaped the history and mythology of the American West. She is the author of 13 books on Western history, most recently, "According to Kate: The Legendary Life of Big Nose Kate, Love of Doc Holiday."

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No Place for a Woman: The Struggle for Woman's Suffrage in the Wild West

History / Biography
TwoDot Books/Rowman&Littlefield
February 2020
ISBN 9781493048915
256 pages
$26.95, NYP

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No Place for a Woman explores the history of the fight for women's rights in the West, examining the conditions that prevailed during the vast migration of pioneers looking for free land and opportunity on the frontier, the politics of the emerging Western territories at the end of the Civil War, and the changing social and economic conditions of the country recovering from war and on the brink of the Gilded Age. Through the individual stories of women like Esther Hobart Morris, Martha Cannon, and Jeannette Rankin, this book reveals the real story of how the hard work and individual lobbying of a few heroines, plus a little bit of publicity-seeking and opportunism by promoters of the Wyoming Territory, ushered in a new era for the expansion of women's rights. More/less