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Border healing woman : the story of Jewel Babb / as told to Pat Ellis Taylor.
LIBRA RZ408.B32 A33
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7962
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bobb, Jewel, 1900- author.
- LittleDog, Pat, 1941- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Babb, Jewel, 1900-.
- Babb, Jewel.
- Healers--Texas--Biography.
- Healers.
- Traditional medicine.
- Texas.
- Traditional medicine--Texas.
- Healing--Religious aspects--Texas.
- Healing.
- Healing--Folklore--Texas.
- Healing--Religious aspects.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7962, 7963)
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 134 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, [1981]
- Summary:
- "Jewel Babb is an independent Anglo woman who has lived most of her eighty years in the isolated desert region near El Paso. Border Healing Woman is her story--of her young years spent traveling the area in a covered wagon, of her marraige into a wealthy ranch family and of the family's loss of that wealth, and of her life alone after her husband died and her sons were arrested for cattle smuggling. It is the story of her management of the little land she had left--Indian Hot Springs on the Rio Grande. There, Mrs. Babb first began taking in people who were sick, healing them with a combination of herbs, spring water, and what she calls "mind healing." Her skill at these forms and at "zone therapy"--the massage of pressure points in order to heal internal disorders--has drawn many varied clients to her, from poor laborers who exchange chickens and goats for her services to the Dallas multimillionaire H. L. Hunt."--back cover.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages [131]-134.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 7962: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel 7963: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Caroline F. Schimmel bookplate on front cover verso.
- ISBN:
- 0292707290 :
- OCLC:
- 6788530
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