The Red Nurse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781499604924)

The Red Nurse is the story of the 1912 textile strike in Little Falls, New York as told by one of its leaders, Helen Schloss, who later disappeared while organizing medical care in the Russian Civil War. When male leaders of the IWW at Little Falls were jailed, Helen and another organizer, Matilda Rabinowitz, stepped forward to lead the strikers to victory in early 1913. In an era of bitter labor battles and repression, the two women used peaceful methods, won public support, and convinced state political leaders to impose a settlement on the unwilling mill owners. The book is the fourth in an ongoing series based on largely forgotten figures of upstate New York history.The first book in the series, Neither Rebel Nor Tory explores the role of Hanyost Schuyler in saving the lives of hundreds of patriots besieged at Fort Stanwix in 1777. The River That Flows Both Ways is based on the life of the early Dutch explorer and physician Harmen van den Bogaert who was the first European to reach the Mohawk villages, and who was later condemned by his countrymen for violating the sexual mores of the time. Roxy Druse & The Murders of Herkimer County is the story of the last woman hung in New York State. In 1884 she was charged with the murder and dismemberment of her husband but in the novel she is remembered as a mother who gave her life for her children. The author is a student of colonial, industrial and social history and has taught on the secondary and college levels before turning to full time writing.