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Mary on Horseback
Three Mountain Stories
By Wells, Rosemary & McCarty, Peter
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-80372-154-8
- Publisher
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1998.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 1998
Gr 2-5 The practice of modern medicine was practically nonexistent in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky in the 1920s. Diphtheria, typhoid, and small pox ravaged the mountain dwellers' lives. Mary Breckinridge, herself a widow whose children had also died, decided to change things. This pioneering nurse-midwife who founded the Frontier Nursing Service is introduced through the eyes of three fictional characters whose lives are irrevocably ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
