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"No women need apply." Western towns looking for a local doctor during the frontier era often concluded their advertisements in just that manner. Yet apply they did. And in small towns all over the west, highly trained women from medical colleges in the East took on the post of local doctor to great acclaim. These women changed the lives of the patients they came in contact with, as well as their own lives, and helped write the history of the West....
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H.A.W. Tabor and his Yankee bride left the stone quarries of New England for the free soil of Kansas, thence pursuing their search for riches to the Colorado Mountains. They witnessed (and aided) the birth of Denver and they kept store in mining camps. The rise to wealth and the wholly incredible way of life of this latter-day Croesus are one of the major fables of the West. In this saga David Karsner has extracted, with admirable judgement, the bizarre...