For early settlers in these isolated mountains, medicine was generally a do-it-yourself business. The nearest doctor often lived a day's travel or more away, leaving patients to depend on folk treatments, Indian herbal cures, and the unsure . . . — — Map (db m291296) HM
She looks tired, worn out after being up most of the night, tending to a sick patient. She's walking home in deep snow on a very cold windy night with her medical bag and railroad lantern. In her younger years she joked about carrying a six gun, . . . — — Map (db m288395) HM