Mary Edwards Walker: Above And Beyond (American Heroes) - Hardcover

Walker, Dale L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765310651 ISBN 13: 9780765310651

Verlag: Forge, 2005

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Book by Walker Dale L

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Reseña del editor:

Profiles the landmark achievements of the nineteenth-century surgeon and suffrage pioneer, tracing Walker's efforts to become one of the period's few woman doctors, her donning of slacks in spite of dress conventions, her Civil War service, and her role as the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor. 25,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor:

Dale L. Walker, a native of Decatur, Illinois, graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1962 with a B.A. degree in journalism. A freelance writer since 1960 Walker specializes in pre-Civil War Western American history, military history, and biography and is author or editor of 21 books, 400 magazine articles, countless reviews, columns, literary studies, and short fiction.
He is a member of Texas Institute of Letters, a four-time winner of the Spur Award from Western Writers of America, Inc., and in 2000 received the Owen Wister Award for lifetime contributions to Western history and literature

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• Verlag: Forge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0765310651
• ISBN 13: 9780765310651
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 221