Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Author Benjamin Sanders (descendant of Martha’s cousin Wilbur
F. Sanders) chronicles the life of the formidable Martha Edgerton Rolfe Plassman. Raised in Ohio, she came west in 1863 as a teenager when her father Sidney Edgerton became Montana’s first territorial governor. After her marriage, she lived in Great Falls, where her life as an activist, social reformer, journalist, and newspaper woman began.