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The Campfire Girls in the Mountains
In this volume, published in 1914, Stratemeyer’s commitment to providing girl readers with outdoor adventures is on full display. Written as the American scouting movements were first founded, The Campfire Girls series provides the protagonists with a thoughtful mentor in the form of the young leader of their local campfire chapter, Miss Elinor. We are told that she encourages the girls to “[form] the habit of thinking things out for themselves and knowing the reason for things, as well as the facts concerned.” Some of the facts she brings to her girls, six years before the passage of the 19th Amendment, include information on local voting rights for women:
"Out west…if you notice, women play a much bigger part than they do here. Those states in the far west, across the Mississippi, give women the right to vote as soon as women show that they want it. They are more ready to do that than the states in the east."
Attributing this difference to a “pioneer” spirit lingering in the west, Miss Elinor and the girls are clearly in favor of bringing this trend to the East, as they ponder ways that girls and women can affect society in ways that benefit all. - AJP