Frontier Doctor

Frontier Doctor
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Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105022772516
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Book Synopsis Frontier Doctor by : Urling Campbell Coe

Download or read book Frontier Doctor written by Urling Campbell Coe and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the author's thirteen-year residency in frontier Oregon, detailing a young physician's experiences in childbirthing, epidemics, fractures, unwanted pregnancies, etc. Includes accounts of his treating patients--cowboys, rustlers, ranch wives, Indians, prostitutes, homesteaders, and town boosters--offering a social history of town and ranch life on the Oregon high desert. This also documents the development of a Western boomtown: with the arrival of the railroad in 1911, the wide-open settlement known as Farewell Bend was transformed into an important center of industry, commerce, and culture.


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