In 1869, Curtis J. Hillyer introduced a women's suffrage resolution in the Nevada Legislature which passed, though it would wait for another legislative session to approve a second time.
The first women's suffrage convention took place in 1870 in Battle Mountain Station.
Several women's suffrage resolutions are voted on, or approved, but none complete the criteria to become amendments to the Constitution of Nevada.
Some Nevada women's suffrage groups work throughout the 1890s and hold more conventions.
That same year, Attorney Felice Cohn writes a women's suffrage resolution that is accepted and passed by the Nevada Legislature.