Mary on horseback: three mountain stories
Health and medicine
Human-transcribed braille
Summary
Three accounts of medical care for poor families in 1920s and 1930s Appalachia. A trained nurse rides horseback to reach isolated cabins, where she sets a broken leg, gives typhoid shots, and mends a child's broken heart. Contains a biographical… sketch of Mary Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. For grades 3-6