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Mary on Horseback: Three Mountain Stories
By Peter McCarty (illustrator) and Rosemary Wells
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Dial Books for Young Readers
Publication date September 1, 1998
Pages 56
Binding Hardcover
Book category Juvenile Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780803721548
ISBN-10 0803721544
Dimensions 0.50 by 6 by 8.75 in.
Weight 0.40 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $16.99
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Summary
Provides the true tale of Mary Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service, who set up her practice in eastern Kentucky to serve the people in the area by providing those who were sick with medical help, medicines and general assistance. (view table of contents)
Amazon.com description: Product Description: When John's pa has his leg crushed riding timber down the tumbling streams to the mill, the granny woman can't help. If he loses his leg, the entire family will suffer because he won't be able to work. Luckily it's eastern Kentucky in the early years of this century, and Mary Breckinridge has arrived on horseback to help. When a mountain man's wife dies, he takes his twin babies and young daughter Pearl, who has stopped talking, down the mountain to the care facility that Mary Breckinridge established to provide medical services for people in 700 square-miles 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 that were changed forever, a portrait of a courageous, self-assured, determined woman emerges. She is Mary Breckinridge, who through her pioneering Frontier Nursing Service, saved more lives than Clara Barton and Florence Nightingale put together, and who can serve as an American role model for young girls today. Rosemary Wells discovered Mary Breckinridge while traveling in Kentucky on a book tour. She has spent three years researching her subject in dusty archives and courthouses, and interviewing surviving relatives. Rosemary Wells lives in Westchester, New York.

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Hardcover
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With Rosemary Wells | from Dial Books for Young Readers (September 1, 1998)
9780803721548 | details & prices | 56 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.50 in. | Rec. grade levels 3-4 | 0.40 lbs | List price $16.99
About: Tells the stories of three families who were helped by the work of Mary Breckinridge, the first nurse to go into the Appalachian Mountains and give medical care to the isolated inhabitants.
Library
Book cover for 9780803721555
 
With Rosemary Wells | from Dial Books for Young Readers (September 1, 1998)
9780803721555 | details & prices | 56 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | Rec. grade levels 3-4 | 0.40 lbs | List price $16.89
About: Tells the stories of three families who were helped by the work of Mary Breckinridge, the first nurse to go into the Appalachian Mountains and give medical care to the isolated inhabitants.
Reinforced
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With Rosemary Wells | from Demco Media (February 1, 2002)
9780606202435 | details & prices | 5.25 × 7.50 × 0.25 in. | Rec. grade levels 3-4 | 0.35 lbs | List price $13.60
About: Tells the stories of three families who were helped by the work of Mary Breckinridge, the first nurse to go into the Appalachian Mountains and give medical care to the isolated inhabitants.

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