Leeroy covers Wyoming's rebellious youth and a time when the Mountain West was unafraid to chart it's own course.

Sources Cited:

“Then I breathed freely:” Black Women Vote in Wyoming, 1870

Sex, Suffrage, and State Constitutional Law: Women's Legal Right to Hold Public Office

How the American West Led the Way for Women in Politics

Why did Western women gain voting rights earlier than the rest of the nation? You may be surprised

A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States: The Removal Era (1820 - 1850)

Performance of select third-party or independent candidates in U.S. presidential elections from 1892 to 2020

Image of the 1887 Continental Railroads

More general sources (if you're inclined to go down Wikipedia rabbit holes:)

Wanna Move to West Virginia?

Wyoming History

1892 US Presidential Election

1892 US Presidential Election in Wyoming

1896 US Presidential Election

Fourth Party System

James B Weaver

People's Party

Haymarket Affair

Women's suffrage in the US