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  • On the Fringes of Power
    Mari Graana / Mari Grana
    Touted in his time as one of the “great men of the West,” Stephen Wallace Dorsey was a Reconstruction carpetbagger who went to Arkansas and finagled and bribed his way into getting elected to the US Senate after living only two years in the state before heading West to seek his fortune. From a fraudulent New Mexico land claim to taking up mining claims and real estate in Southe...
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  • Dr. Martha
    Mari Grana
    Dr. Martha tells the fascinating story of Martha Hughes Cannon, the first woman elected to the Utah state senate—in 1896. She was a polygamist wife, a practicing physician, and an astute and pioneering politician. In compelling prose, author Mari Graña traces Cannon’s life from her birth in Wales to her emigration to Utah with her family in 1861, her career as a physician, her ...
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  • Charity’s Sister
    Mari Graa / Mari Grana
    In 1951, when Sister of Charity Mary Joaquin Bitler was called to Santa Fe, New Mexico to be the Supervisor of Nursing at Santa Fe’s antiquated St. Vincent Hospital, she remarked that the 1910 Catholic hospital was surviving on 'nerve and hope.' Later, as Administrator (1960 - 1976), she was lauded locally and nationally for her achievements in health care and for bringing that...
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  • Pioneer Doctor
    Mari Grana
    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...
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