Frontier Feminist

Winner: Armitage-Jameson Prize
Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize Finalist

Clarina Howard Nichols was one of America’s pioneering social reformers. From Vermont to Kansas to California, she forged a political role for women by using her stature as a lady and a mother to lobby vigorously for women’s rights, antislavery, and temperance. After joining the antislavery migration to Kansas, Nichols cha...