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Wyoming as the "Equality State" and the "Cowboy State";
Author Reveals the Differences
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- When San Francisco author Margaret Benshoof-Holler headed back to her Wyoming roots to find out the truth about her grandmother's death in a suspicious 1930's Wyoming fire, she felt immediately sucked back in time by contrasts.
Wyoming's motto is the "Equality State" because that's where women first gained the right to vote and sit on juries in 1869 while Wyoming was still a territory. It's also called the "Cowboy State" where in the recent past a man "could be hanged for stealing a horse, but what he did with his wife was his business." Margaret intended find out the true state of affairs in the state where she came of age on the cusp of the 1960s' sexual revolution.
On her late 1990s road trip back to Wyoming, she uncovered the truth about her grandmother's death and came to terms with her own past losses experienced in the Wyoming she knew while growing up there. On the road across Wyoming, she considered "the big distance" she had kept for 35 years between her and Wyoming. She analyzed the conditions of women in the late 1990s versus those of the 1960s. Her own conflicting emotions about Wyoming shaped the theme of her book, a study in social issues set in a state of contrasts.
Margaret Benshoof-Holler is a journalist, a writer of fiction and poetry, and a teacher. She has worked as a freelance writer and op ed columnist for a number of newspapers and magazines including the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner. She lived and taught in Boulder, Colorado, Jakarta, Indonesia, Malmo, Sweden, and Madrid, Spain before moving to San Francisco where she currently writes and teaches at City College of San Francisco.
The author has been featured on WBAI 99.5 FM Pacifica Radio "Arts Magazine" in New York City; NPR affiliate KALW, 91.7FM in San Francisco, CA; KPFA 94.1 FM "Cover to Cover" in Berkeley, CA; San Francisco's KGO AM 810 morning news; FM 107 WFMP Radio's Lorie & Julia Show in St. Paul, MN; WBEB FM's "The Women's File" in Philadelphia, PA; KMPS-FM morning news, Seattle, WA; "Women's Voices" on KZYX-91.5 FM Radio in Mendocino, CA, and "Today's Women" on WGNY-AM in New Windsor, New York. She has also been featured on NPR affiliate WFSS 91.9 FM's "Women's Voices, Women's Lives," in Fayetteville, NC and the Manhattan Neighborhood Network cable channel 34's "Woman's Connection (sm) in New York, NY.
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Trade paperback, 8 1/2 X 5 1/2, 381 pages.
ISBN: 0-9714473-2-2
LCC#: 2001095609
$14.95
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