"No women need apply." Western towns looking for a local doctor during the frontier era often concluded their advertisements in just that manner. Yet apply they did. And in small towns all over the west, highly trained women from medical colleges in the East took on the post of local doctor to great acclaim. These women changed the lives of the patients they came in contact with, as well as their own lives, and helped write the history of the West. In this new book, author Chris Enss offers a glimpse into the fascinating lives of ten of these amazing women.

(1) Introduction (2) Bethenia Owens-Adair (3) Georgia Arbuckle Fix (4) Susan La Flesche Picotte (5) Susan Anderson (6) Nellie Mattie MacKnight (7) Patty Bartlett Sessions (8) Nellie Pooler Chapman and Lucy Hobbs Taylor (9) Mary Canaga Rowland (10) Ellis Reynolds Shipp (11) Franc Johnson Newcomb (12) Flora Hayward Stanford (13) Frontier Medicine (14) Advertisements and Women Physicians (15) Bibliography