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First Edition, Second Printing - In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout."No Women Need Apply."These Four Discouraging Words of admonition often greeted female physicians looking for jobs in the frontier-era West. Despite the dire need for medical help, it seemed most trappers, miners, and emigrants would rather suffer and die than be treated by a female doctor. Nevertheless dozens of highly trained women headed West, where they endured hardship and prejudice as they set broken limbs, performed operations, delivered generations of babies - and solidified a place for women in the medical field.Susan La Flesche, the youngest daughter of an Omaha Indian Chief, felt called to medicine when at the age of twelve she saw a woman die because a government-paid doctor was too busy hunting prairie chickens to help. Destitute divorcee Bethenia Owens Adair traded in laundry work for a successful medical practice. Flora Hayward Stanford,…
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Book: Allen and Mikes Backcountry Ski Book One Color, One Size Unknown - 2005
by Frasure, Carrie
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- Title Book: Allen and Mikes Backcountry Ski Book One Color, One Size
- Author Frasure, Carrie
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- Edition 1st
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- Date 9/1/2005
- ISBN 9780249330129
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