Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman's Work

by Mari Grana

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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… (more)

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Interesting, easy to read account of a determined woman who became a doctor, first working in a mining camp where men were leery and eventually became active in the advancement of women in society, i.e., medicine, suffrage, etc. Well-researched and written by her granddaughter. (

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This is the true story of Mary (Molly) Babcock Atwater. She went to medical school and became a doctor at a time when women doctors were unheard of. From her Wisconsin home she travelled to Utah and from there to Montana where she was hired as a mining camp Doctor. (

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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

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