Frontier feminism and the Woman's Tribune: the journalism of Clara Bewick Colby

Clara Bewick Colby established the Woman's Tribune in Beatrice, Nebraska, in 1883. The suffragist newspaper survived twenty-six years and would later include Washington, D. C., and Portland, Oregon, as places of publication. This study is an analysis of the content of the newspaper in the years when it was published in Nebraska (1883-89), during which time the paper provided rural, isolated women with information that transcended the right to vote. The study concludes that the Woman's Tribune consistently was framed within an identifiable feminist ideology, in which Colby held to the notion that suffrage and equality for women were moral rights in a democratic society.