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TitleDistant view of what's left of 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. Over time miners, speculators, and businessmen, finding little gold and suffering in the region's winter blizzards and unrelenting summer heat, abandoned the town, which is named for the surrounding valley that proved the most reliable route through the Rocky Mountains for emigrants on the Oregon, Mormon, and California trails. Now a historic site, South Pass City once again has (in 2016) a few hardy residentsColor ContentcolorCould not render: bf:code Notephysical details: digital, tiff file, color. Applies To: Applies To: all Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographerSouth 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 1920Extent1 photographProvision ActivityPublication: Wyoming 2016 Publication: 2016-05-27 Usage And Access PolicyNo known restrictions on publication.Preferred CitationCredit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.Acquisition SourceDLC Stock Number:LC-DIG-highsm-38566 (original digital file) 