Jeannette Rankin was a take-charge girl. Whether caring for her little brother and sisters or her horses on her family's Montana ranch, she knew just what to do. Later she visited San Francisco where she saw children living in poor conditions. She went to work to change that.

But for women to really change things, they needed to vote. In Jeannette's time that was illegal! So she spent years giving speeches and organizing women to convince men to grant women the right to vote. When Montana gave women that right, Jeannette ran for the US congress and won. The first woman to do so! 

Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin blazed a trail that hundreds more women have followed.

From the dust jacket