Pendleton Round-Up: 1912 and Now

Imagine the scene where Eastern intellectual Anna Howard Shaw arrives in Oregon for the “Wild West” doings at the Pendleton Round-up. Shaw was no prim and proper lady despite her early work with the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and this elegant pose taken in 1914. She was the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), had graduated from Boston University’s School of Theology and School of Medicine, and knew how to work a crowd.

Shaw toured Oregon in the final weeks bef...