THE NEW NORTHWEST, Portland, Oregon, Aug. 24, 1882  This was one of the most influential reform newspapers in the history of the Pacific Northwest and a landmark publication in the American women’s suffrage movement.
 It was published from 1871 to 1887 by pioneering activist and editor Abigail Scott Duniway, advocating for women’s voting rights, expanded property rights for married women, labor reform, and broader social equality. Its motto, as printed in the dateline — “Free Speech, Free Press, Free People” — reflected its outspoken editorial style and reformist mission.
It emerged at a time when the Pacific Northwest was still developing politically and socially. Duniway had crossed the Oregon Trail in 1852 and became deeply committed to women’s rights after witnessing the legal and economic limitations imposed on frontier women. Through The New Northwest, she created one of the first sustained feminist voices in the western United States. It played a major role in organizing the Western suffrage movement. Duniway used it to promote lecture tours by prominent national activists such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Historians regard the paper as one of the earliest major catalysts for organized women’s rights activism in the Pacific Northwest.
Eight pages, some small edge tears along the right margin, otherwise in very nice condition.