When Mollie Babcock stepped off the train in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1890, she knew she had to start a new life.
It is also the Story of an era when daring women ventured forth and changed hiStory for the rest of us..
She was offered a job as doctor to the miners at Bannack, Montana, and thus began her epic adventures in the Rocky Mountain West.
The true Story of a medicine woman who found opportunity in the wide-open spaces of America\'s frontier west, Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman\'s Work, is not just a beautifully written and thoroughly researched Story of a fascinating woman\'s life.
She\'d left her husband and their medical practice in Iowa, and with only a few hundred dollars in her pocket and a great deal of pride, she set out to find a new position as a physician.
When Mollie Babcock stepped off the train in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1890, she knew she had to start a new life