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Mary On Horseback

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By Rosemary Wells
Publisher Penguin Group (USA) LLC - (Viking)
Mary On Horseback
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When Johns pa has his leg crushed riding timber down the tumbling streams to the mill, the granny woman cant help. If he loses his leg, the entire family will suffer because he wont be able to work. Luckily its eastern Kentucky in the early years of this century, and Mary Breckinridge has arrived on horseback to help.When a mountain man loses his wife, he takes his twin babies and young daughter Pearl, who has stopped talking, down the mountain to Wendover, the care facility that Mary Breckinridge established to provide medical services for people in 700 squaremiles of wilderness.When a young nurse from Scotland seeks adventure and a chance to use her nursing skills, she applies for a job with Mary and spends most of the rest of her life on horseback, following the mountain trails to provide vaccines, medicines, and care in the Frontier Nursing Service.Here, through the skillfully told stories of three lives which were changed forever, a portrait of a courageous, selfassured, determined woman emerges. She is Mary Breckinridge, who through her pioneering Frontier Nursing Service, saved more lives than Clara Barton and Fl

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6430 words6,430 words
64 pages64 pages
Lexile 660LLexile 660L
Grade 3 to 7Grade 3 to 7
Age 8-12Age 8-12
Published 1998Published 1998

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9780670889235

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