Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers - Lynne Marie Getz - Bog

Tells of zealous abolitionists and free-state campaigners aiding and abetting John Brown in Bleeding Kansas; of a Civil War soldier serving as a provost marshal in an occupied Arkansas town; of young women who became doctors in rural Texas and New York City in the late nineteenth century; and of a homesteader and businessman among settler colonists in Colorado.