Summary: Image courtesy of the Utah State Historical Society<br> <br> In 1896, Martha Hughes Cannon ran for state senate against her polygamist husband, and won! But becoming America’s first female state senator was only one chapter of Cannon’s story. A whirlwind of triumph and heartbreak dominated her life: wagon trains, Victorian medicine, the suffrage movement, evading federal prosecution, she lived it all!<br> <br> Our guest is Rebekah Clark, author of Thinking Women: A Timeline of Suffrage in Utah
