| Item #8104 WARM WEATHER AND BAD WHISKEY, The 1886 Laredo Election Riot TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS Author: Jerry D. Thompson
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One of the most violent yet least known political feuds of the American West came to a head when Guaraches fired on the Botas with a cannon. El Paso, 1991, 1st Ed., HB, 218 Pgs. |
| Item #6865 WOMEN PIONEERS IN TEXAS MEDICINE TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS Author: Elizabeth Silverthorne, et al
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With Geneva Fulgham. A groundbreaking book on women in Texas Medicine. The pioneering figures presented here forged new paths for women in nursing, pharmacy, public health, and dentistry to general and hospital practice, hospice care, virology, surgery and psychiatry. Their stories reveal the special obstacles they faced and overcame as women practicing in a demanding traditionally all-male field. Chronicles also the devlopment of medicine, and although there was discrimination and resistance, their accomplishments paralelled and in some instances led the devolopment of medical practice and specialization. Some of the women are Jewell Babb, Mary Shelman, Minnie Fisher Cunningham, Sophie Herzog, Hallie Earle, Francine Jensen, Claudia Potter, May Owen, Ruth Hartgraves, Ray Daily, Clotilde Garcia, Katherine Hsu, Hilde Bruch, and Huda Y. Zoghbi. Number 70 , The Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University. College Station, TX 1997 Texas A&M University Press 1st Ed., 6 x 9, 238 Pgs., HB. |