Pioneer Doctor

The Story of a Woman's Work

De: Mari Graña

Narrado por: Patricia Davis

When Mollie Babcock stepped off the train in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1890, she knew she had to start a new life. She'd left her husband and their medical practice in Iowa, and with only a few hundred dollars in her pocket and a great deal of pride, she set out to find a new position as a physician. She was offered a job as doctor to the miners at Bannack, Montana, and thus began her epic adventures in the Rocky Mountain West.

The true story of a medicine woman who found opportunity in the wide-open spaces of America's frontier west, Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman's Work, is not just a beautifully written and thoroughly researched story of a fascinating woman's life. It is also the story of an era when daring women ventured forth and changed history for the rest of us.

©2023 Mari Graña (P)2023 Rowman & Littlefield

The AI mispronounced words was distracting and diminished the story

AI should not be used. Just terrible reading of a great story. I had trouble continuing the book. Very worthwhile story however.

Interesting!

I would recommend it as a study of medicine in the 1800s and also visit the Bannack, Montana Ghost Town.

The Miss-pronounced names of towns

I felt like I was listening to someone who was recording as she read the book for the first time. I had hoped that simple words and punctuation would improve as the book went along. But they didn’t. It was a distraction and hard to follow the story line. The overall story of such a driven woman who fought for our rights to vote was humbling. Thank you for sharing Dr. Mollies story.

Poor reader. Thought it was a computer.

I actually thought this was a computer generated voice and was surprised to see it had been “performed” by a professional reader. Inflections and pronunciations were consistently off throughout. It made listening very tedious.

Interesting story. Very poor quality performance.

Sadly, I was distracted by the reading of the book. Very mechanical, robotic reading full of mispronunciations.