Pioneer Doctor - The Story of a Woman's Work

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. Due largely to the fact that the mine owner's young wife was expecting their first child, she took 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, A Woman's Work: The Life of a Pioneer Physician, is not just a beautifully written and thoroughly researched story of a fascinating woman's life, it is also the story of an era in women's history when the daring ventured forth and changed history for the rest of us....