Pioneer doctor : the story of a woman's work / Mari Graña.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graña, Mari, 1936- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atwater, Mary Babcock.

Women physicians--United States--Biography.

Women physicians.

Medicine--United States--History.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 p.)

Place of Publication:

Guilford, Connecticut : TwoDot Book, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When Mollie 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 his medical practice behind 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 a doctor to the miners in Bannack, Montana, and thus began her epic adventures as a pioneer doctor, a suffragette, and a crusader for public health reform in the Rocky Mountain West.Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman's Work is the true story of Dr. Mary (Mollie) Babcock Atwa

Contents:

Front Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Front Matter; Body; Back Matter; Back Cover; Spine

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 30, 2014).

ISBN:

0-7627-5194-0

OCLC:

890983520