Dale DeBakcsy
Lavinia Waterhouse: Gold Rush Physician, Frontier Suffragette
Lavinia Waterhouse (1809–1890) lived at the intersection of a tangle of ideas that, to the twenty-first-century mind, have no business...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
A Doctor at Sky’s Edge: Susan Anderson and the Practice of Medicine on America’s Last Frontier
Seventy miles west of Denver, in a small town nestled 8,574 feet above sea level there rests the town of Fraser. Today an enclave of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
A Healer at the Fringe of Civilization: The Siberian Odyssey of Doctor Anna Bek
It is the early 1870s and we are heading into the mining town of Gornyi Zerentui, located in the mountainous Transbaikal region on the...
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