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Show Page 8 Chapter 2 Queen Ann "I don't want to wear dresses and I don't want to be a lady. I want to be a cowboy." Those were fighting words in 1882, for four-year-old Ann had chosen for herself an unusual career for a woman. The men and women who settled the West brought with them a legacy of values and beliefs. Among these was the attitude that women were subordinate to men because of their physical and mental limitations and therefore belonged in the home, not galloping across the range after a stray cow. So the career Ann had chosen was not entirely acceptable to society. Ann had some things in her favor, however. For one, the women's suffrage movement was in full swing at the time. This was a movement designed to gain broader rights and opportunities for American women, including the right to vote. Women were already voting in some areas despite the fact that it wasn't until 1920 that the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution gave all women in AmericaAthe franchise. For the first time |