Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman's Work

By Mari Graña

Book Overview

When Mollie Babcock stepped off the train in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1890, she knew she had to start a new life. She'd left her husband and their medical practice in Iowa, and with only a few hundred dollars in her pocket and a great deal of pride, she set out to find a new position as a physician. She was offered a job as doctor to the miners at Bannack, Montana, and thus began her epic adventures in the Rocky Mountain West.

The true story of a medicine woman who found opportunity in the wide-open spaces of America's frontier west, Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman's Work, is not just a beautifully written and thoroughly researched story of a fascinating woman's life. It is also the story of an era when daring women ventured forth and changed history for the rest of us.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762736542
• ISBN13: 9780762736546
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Two Dot Books
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"