Pioneer Doctor

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.<BR /><BR />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.