Frontier Freedom Fighter

by Eickhoff, Diane

• ISBN13: 9780976443476
• ISBN10: 0976443473
• Edition: Abridged
• Format: CD
• Copyright: 2006-04-30
• Publisher: Quindaro Pr

Summary

Clarina Nichols (1810-1885) was set apart from other 19th century women activists-both physically and emotionally. As one of the few feminists to follow the nation's westward expansion, Nichols was separated from the women's movement just as it began to flourish under the leadership of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other Easterners. Unlike many activists, Nichols personally experienced some of the most troubling heartbreaks and hardships that a married woman of her day could know. This hard-won knowledge led her to sacrifice both health and financial well-being to right the wrongs that were tolerated in her time.Driven by a deep inner need to end the mistreatment of women, Clarina Nichols left the comforts of her Vermont home and moved West to the wild frontier of "Bleeding Kansas," where her sons fought alongside John Brown and she helped shaped the state's new Constitution to free slaves and give women rights they had no where else in America.Now-for the first time-the story of Clarina Nichols comes alive thanks to Diane Eickhoff, whose meticulous, six-year quest to collect and analyze Nichols's scattered writings and papers has yielded a richer understanding of this remarkable pioneer. Frontier Freedom Fighter: The Life of Clarina Nichols is a unique audio book: It's an original piece of scholarship praised by academic historians as "thorough and illuminating," a "full-bodied" and "exceptionally detailed portrait." Yet it is written for Young Adults who will enjoy the moving account of this brave woman. Eickhoff traveled around Kansas in character as Clarina Nichols in chautauquas, and brings her performance skills to this cd. Frontier Freedom Fighter is more than an engaging biography; it is a window into an unjustly overlooked period in American history about the three great 19th century reform movements-abolition, women's rights and temperance.

Author Biography

Diane Eickhoff spent more than two decades as a freelance writer placing articles in such publications as McCall's, The Lutheran, Hartford Times and Kansas City Star. As Diane Carlson she won three awards from the Educational Press Association of America. Ms. Eickhoff has written several books of Young Adult fiction, and edited textbooks for middle and high school students. A biography of Clarina Nichols for the Adult market, entitled Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights, is set for release March 2006 and a DVD ôRecovering Clarina Nicholsö will be released Summer of 2007 by Quindaro Press. She continues to perform as Clarina Nichols at events and chautauquas.