Books like Shadow of the Mountains (Cheney Duvall, M.D. #2) by Lynn Morris
After earning her medical degree in 1865 as one of few women in a prestigious university, physician Cheney Duvall faces relentless sexism in Washington Territory. Returning to Philadelphia, she learns her friend, expecting a child in the remote Wolf County of the Ozark Mountains, urgently needs care. Despite warnings of a superstitious, illiterate population hostile to educated female doctors, Cheney ventures into the mountains with her nurse, Shiloh Irons, and brings modern medicine to a community lacking doctors. There she confronts a powerful local medicine woman, the greed of large land companies, and even a dangerous bullet, all while seeking to heal and protect her friend and the townsfolk.
First publish date: 1994
Genre: Historical Fiction/19th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Lynn Morris
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