Mary on Horseback: Three Mountain Stories by Rosemary Wells

Mary on Horseback: Three Mountain Stories

Rosemary Wells with Peter McCarty (Illustrator)

53 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction biography childrens history emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
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In 1923, Mary Breckinridge (who had been a nurse in WWI) learned about the nonexistent medical facilities in Appalachian Kentucky, and founded the Frontier Nursing Service -- a group of women who traveled by horseback to isolated mountain resident...

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