Ebook {Epub PDF} Mary On Horseback: Three Mountain Stories by Rosemary Wells

 · Overview. Master storyteller Rosemary Wells tells the incredible true story of a World War I nurse who brought medical care to the Appalachians. Mary Breckinridge, trained as a nurse during World War I, rode on horseback into the isolated mountains of Appalachia and never looked back. Instead, she spent her life fording icy streams and climbing untracked mountains to bring medical help Brand: Penguin Young Readers Group. Mary on Horseback: Three Mountain Stories: Author: Rosemary Wells: Illustrated by: Peter McCarty: Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers, Original from: the University of Michigan: Author: Rosemary Wells. 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.

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Originally published by Dial Books for Young Readers, 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. Master storyteller Rosemary Wells tells the incredible true story of a World War I nurse who brought medical care to the Appalachians. Mary Breckinridge, trained as a nurse during World War I, rode on horseback into the isolated mountains of Appalachia and never looked back. Instead, she spent her life fording icy streams and climbing untracked mountains to bring medical help to those in need. Mary on Horseback: Three Mountain Stories: Author: Rosemary Wells: Illustrated by: Peter McCarty: Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers, Original from: the University of Michigan.