A Frontier Nurse and Her Horse In the Mountains of Kentucky
Mary Breckinridge rode through the mountains in the summer of 1928, visiting lonely cabins and riding up steep mountain canyons. She gave nursing care to men, women, and especially children. Word spread that she was a nurse and mothers flocked to her with their sick babies. For the next 40 years, Mary Breckinridge served the Kentucky mountain people as a
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