July 17, 1855 – Author Eva Emery Dye is born Evangeline Lucinda Emery in Prophetstown, Illinois.
At age 8, Eva Emery Dye began writing poetry in her childhood home of Prophetstown, Illinois. By the turn-of-the-century, she’d written one of America’s first historically based novels – transforming the obscure Shoshone woman named Sacajawea into a national heroine. Active in the women’s suffrage movement, Dye spent one year in Iowa City, and during that time she wrote a 13-page article on Iowa City history which became the lead story in the June 1889 edition of the Magazine of American History. We’ve taken Dye’s very unique story – written as only a poetic her-storian could – and reprinted it here. Enjoy!
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