More Than Gold in California
The Life and Work of Dr. Mary Bennett Ritter
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Word Count
89,000 words, Guess
Page Count
356 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL29737224M
- ISBN-139781493026517
- OCLC Control Number947269971
- Library of Congress Control Number2016018898
Classifications
- LCCR154.R443
Description
"Mary Bennet Ritter was a farmer's daughter who in the 1880s defied all conventions to pursure her passion: to receive medical training and become a physician. Ritter's memoir is a riveting account of her accomplishments and a revealing peek into an earlier era through her keen sense of observation, humor, savvy, and her courage to challenge gender norms. It is filled with adventures--house calls via horse and buggy rides through the dark streets of Berkeley, a spurned lover's suicide, a near drowning at Pacific Grove Beach, one of the first automobile rides across rugged California dirt roads, intercontinental rail travel, and voyages to the Far East. As the story unfolds, readers encounter the movers and shakers of the time--University of California presidents and families of wealth and influence, including the Scrippses, the Hearsts, and the Rockefellers"--Back cover.
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