in which he recounted the tea party and his attendance as a legislative candidate, some 50 years after the event had taken place. In a tip of the hat honoring Morris, Nickerson notes:To Mrs. Esther Morris is due the credit and honor of advocating and originating woman's suffrage in the United States. Nickerson's story gained widespread prominence after his friend, Wyoming historian Grace Raymond Hebard (1861–1936) published the account in a 1920 pamphlet entitled "How Woman Suffrage Came to Wyoming (1869)". The pamphlet eventually became so widely distributed that students throughout the state's public schools read the story memorializing Morris's suffrage feats. Hebard spent many years advancing the claim, promoting Morris as an instigator and co-author of Wyoming's suffrage legislation. Statues at the capitol buildings in Cheyenne and Washington, D.C. In 1960, Wyoming further celebrated Morris as a key impetus of Wyoming suffrage by donating a life-sized bronze statue of her to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Officiating at the Statuary Hall ceremony were Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Richard Arnold Mullens (1918–2010), the president at the time of the Wyoming State Society. In 1963, Wyoming officials placed a replica of the same 9 foot sculpture at the state capitol building in Cheyenne. An inscription thereon hails Morris as the "Mother of Woman Suffrage". In 2006, the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas, inducted Morris, as a suffrage pathbreaker. The Cowgirl Hall of Fame claims that her "influential efforts made it possible for women to vote in the Wyoming Territory in 1869." On Death Valley Days In 1960, the actress Bethel Leslie played Morris in an episode of the syndicated television anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. Hall of fame In 1973, she was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. See also History of feminism List of suffragists and suffragettes List of women's rights activists Timeline of women's suffrage Grace Raymond Hebard South Pass City, Wyoming References External links Esther Hobart Morris, aoc.gov; accessed June 24, 2014. Statue of Esther Hobart Morris, wyshs.org; accessed June 24, 2014. 1812 births 1902 deaths American women judges American women's rights activists Feminism and history American justices of the peace People from Cheyenne, Wyoming People from Sweetwater County, Wyoming People from Tioga County, New York American