Kneeling Crow Harrison Blows Through Wyoming in a Storm of Scandal

Daily True American Dispatch #5.

By Edward A. Fields, Special Correspondent
Daily True American
September 12, 1894

Wyoming, a land of vast plains and rugged mountains, finds itself entangled in a tempest that few could have foreseen: the arrival of Miss Kamari "Kneeling Crow" Harrison five years past. Her campaign for governorship, which might have been lauded as a bold stroke in another candidate, stirs a storm of scandal and intrigue.

Here, in the so-called Equality State—where women have held office since Esther Hobart Morris' appointment in South Pass City in 1870—Miss Harrison has taken a privilege bestowed in good faith and turned it into a carnival of licentious ambition better suited for a Saloon Strumpet.

For weeks, her public appearances have left audiences bewildered, and not in awe of any brilliance of mind or clarity of purpose. In Cheyenne, she recently bellowed to a gathering of curious onlookers, “We are unburdened by the territorial prosperity we embrace with vigor, and plant the seeds of unity across these lands, for what greater prosperity might come!”—words which, though grandiose, rang hollow in the ears of those who have long toiled in these rugged hills. Horace McAllister, a rancher from Laramie, remarked bitterly, “The woman talks circles around herself. There ain’t a shred of sense in it. She’s like a preacher with no God to speak of.”