 She was inducted into the Colorado Women 's Hall of Fame in 1996 . In 1999 , her daughter Jeanne Varnell published a book titled Women of Consequence : The Colorado Women 's Hall of Fame , which contains the biographies of McConnell and 58 other inductees of the Hall of Fame . The project began when Varnell set out to write a biography of her mother , but was urged by her editor to do the same for all 59 of the women in the Hall of Fame at the time , and compile them into a book . 
