The Whole Damn Cheese: Maggie Smith, Border Legend

by Bill Wright

Book Overview

Anecdotes about Maggie Smith abound, but Bill Wright's The Whole Damn Cheese is the first book devoted entirely to the woman whose life in Big Bend country has become the stuff of legend. For more than twenty years--from 1943 until her death in 1965--Maggie Smith served folks on both sides of the border as doctor, lawyer, midwife, herbalist, banker, self-appointed justice of the peace, and coroner. As she put it, she was "the whole damn cheese"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875657044
• ISBN13: 9780875657042
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"