Wells, Rosemary.

Mary on horseback : three mountain stories / Rosemary Wells ; pictures by Peter McCarty. - 1st ed. - New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1998. - 53 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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. Includes an afterword with facts about Breckinridge and the Frontier Nursing Service she founded.

0803721544 (tr) 0803721552 (lib)

97043409


Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965 --Juvenile literature.
Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965.


Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.--Juvenile literature.
Frontier Nursing Service, inc.


Nurses--Juvenile literature.--Kentucky
Medical care--History--Juvenile literature.--Kentucky
Nurses.
Women--Biography.

RT37.B72 / W44 1998

610.73/092 B