num_pages: 360
description: 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.
language: English
title: Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman's Work
titlecomplete: Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman's Work
characters: Mollie Babcock
genres: Historical, History, Womens, Memoir, American History, 19th Century, Health, Medicine, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 513
places: Rocky Mountains, Utah, Bannack, Montana, Salt Lake City, Utah, Montana
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: WILLA Literary Award
category: Other Nonfiction (Finalist)
publisher: TwoDot