Linda Slaughter

[2] Slaughter started this when she traveled to Fort Rice where her husband was stationed as an officer of the army and was part of the campaign to subdue Indians and establish the federal authority in the West.

She began writing for The Bismarck Tribune, where she contributed a regular fiction that also included social commentary covering the military as well as the Indian campaigns.

She embraced the women's rights movement and became an important member and officer of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).

[6] Slaughter was also the vice president of the Woman's National Press Association sometime in the late 1880s and participated in the International Council of Women meeting held in 1888.

[5] Slaughter was also appointed as the superintendent of schools for Burleigh County in 1873, making her the first woman to occupy such position in Dakota Territory.

She met her husband, who was a son of a slave-holding planter, at the western district of Kentucky and Tennessee in 1868 while working as a missionary supervisor after the American Civil War.