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Article: Independence at South Pass.(South Pass City, Wyoming)
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- Sunset
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- July 1, 1999
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In South Pass City, Wyoming, Independence Day is big business. Every year at this time, you can down a root beer at a recreated saloon, play poker in a card room, or even pan for gold at Willow Creek.
Given this area's history, it's no wonder the Fourth of July is so celebrated. Settled partly due to the 1868 South Pass City gold boom, the town was at the forefront of the women's suffrage movement; local women encouraged territorial representative William H. Bright of South Pass City to introduce a bill supporting women's suffrage in the state. As a result, Esther Hobart Morris became the nation's first female justice of the peace - in South Pass City - and in ...