Doctor Wore Petticoats: Women Physicians of the Old West

by Chris Enss

Book Overview

A New York Times Bestseller "No women need apply." Western towns looking for a local doctor during the frontier era often concluded their advertisements in just that manner. Yet apply they did. And in small towns all over the west, highly trained women from medical colleges in the East took on the post of local doctor to great acclaim. These women changed the lives of the patients they came in contact with, as well as their own lives,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076273566X
• ISBN13: 9780762735662
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Two Dot Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Another GREAT book by Chris Enss!

After reading Hearts West and enjoying it so much, I looked into other books by this author and discovered this jewel. It was an incredibly informative and interesting read. Chris Enss is a gifted writer. She gives the reader insight to a world that was so vastly different from that of today. After reading each woman's story in the book, I longed for more. That is my only disappointment; that I can't know more about each of these women Ms. Enss writes about. I highly recommend it to anyone who is even remotely interested in what life was like for women in the Old West.

IT CAPTURES YOUR INTEREST AND KEEPS IT...

I picked this book up to read around 8pm in the evening. I didn't put it down until I was finished reading it at 2:15am. Although I am able to speed read this book was so interesting and entertaining that I couldn't miss a single word. This book is an absolute must for anyone interested in the Old West. It combined humor, struggle and determination to give a very insightful and educating book. The book gave a very vivid picture of female doctors in the Old West. As a bonus it has a wonderful collection of "Frontier Medicine" listed in the back of the book. Remedies such as carrying an onion in your pocket to prevent smallpox and owl broth to cure whooping cough are just a few. If you pick up this book...clear your schedule because you won't be able to put it down until you have read every single page.