In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback

Wide Neighborhoods is the autobiography of Mary Breckinridge, the remarkable founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. It is equally the story of the unique orga

Autobiographie, in der Rechenschaft abgelegt wird über pflegerische Aktivitäten in Russland, Frankreich, Schweiz, England, Amerika und Kanada. U. a. ist das B

A biography of the woman who gave up the riches and comfort of her aristocratic birth to serve as a nurse in the Kentucky mountains where she established the Fr

Offers brief profiles of nine Kentucky women, including a pioneer, slave, suffragist, educator, teacher, sculptor, nurse, newspaper woman, and country music sin