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Pioneer, Polygamist, Politician

The Life of Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon

By: Mari Grana

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Pioneer, Polygamist, Politician

The Life of Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon

By: Mari Grana

A riveting look at an untold chapter of Western history, this book tells the story of Martha Hughes Cannon, the first woman elected to the state senate in Utah—in 1896. She was a polygamist wife, a practicing physician, and an astute and pioneering politician. Pioneer, Polygamist, Politician traces her life from her birth in Wales to her emigration to Utah with her family in 1861, her career as a physician, her marriage, her exile in England, and her subsequent return and her election to the Utah state senate. Cannon was a Democrat—and her husband was the Republican candidate she defeated in that historic election.

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0762756373

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Dr. Martha

The Life of a Pioneer Physician, Politician, and Polygamist

By: Mari Grana

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Dr. Martha

The Life of a Pioneer Physician, Politician, and Polygamist

By: 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 marriage, her exile in England, her subsequent return, and her election to the Utah state senate. Her husband was the Republican candidate she, a Democrat, defeated in that historic election.

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144224738X

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On the Fringes of Power

The Life and Turbulent Career of Stephen Wallace Dorsey

By: Mari Grana

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On the Fringes of Power

The Life and Turbulent Career of Stephen Wallace Dorsey

By: 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 Southern California, he used sheer cunning and guile to manipulate the system of the Gilded Age to his own ends. Dorsey was a major presence in early New Mexico—which was no-holds-barred frontier corruption—with his flair for excess. Excess is in everything he did, his manipulative 600,000-acre-land-grab, his political shenanigans, his excessive drinking, his extravagant lifestyle always on display. In his fraudulent dealings he was caught out—not by the law, but those more conniving than he was. His fantastic mansion in the middle of a still-today empty prairie in northeastern New Mexico was of state-wide historical importance before the state could no longer afford to keep it.

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1442247363

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Pioneer Doctor

The Story of a Woman's Work

By: Mari Grana

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Pioneer Doctor

The Story of a Woman's Work

By: Mari Grana

When Mollie 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 his medical practice behind 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 a doctor to the miners in Bannack, Montana, and thus began her epic adventures as a pioneer doctor, a suffragette, and a crusader for public health reform in the Rocky Mountain West. Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman's Work is the true story of Dr. Mary (Mollie) Babcock Atwater, a medicine woman who found freedom and opportunity in the wide-open spaces of America's frontier west. This remarkable tale has been creatively retold here by her granddaughter, award-winning author Mari Grana. Blending information from historical records as well as interviews with family and friends, the author has reconstructed Mollie's steps into a dramatic narrative that brings to life the doctor's struggles, her accomplishments, and the times in which she lived. Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, this is not just the biography of a fascinating woman. It is also the story of an era when daring women ventured forth and changed history for the rest of us.

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363

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0762751940

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9780762751945

Begoso Cabin

A Pecos Country Retreat

By: Mari Graña

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Begoso Cabin

A Pecos Country Retreat

By: Mari Graña

A desire to withdraw to the wild leads to renovating an abandoned sheepherder's cabin and an understanding of the human history and natural environment.

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UNM Press

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0826320988

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Charity's Sister

The Story of Sister Mary Joaquin Bitler, SC

By: Mari Graña

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Charity's Sister

The Story of Sister Mary Joaquin Bitler, SC

By: Mari Graña

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 care to the poor of New Mexico. Considered by many a brilliant businesswoman, she turned St. Vincent's into a state-of-the art facility in its time, managed by a community corporation. Sister Mary Joaquin's story tells of a very complex personality. A tough hospital administrator, she had many admirers as well as some enemies; a devout nun, she drew strength from her religion to open her heart to the poor and the sick, while she herself suffered a chronic and debilitating illness. In 1977, after succeeding in her goal to build Santa Fe a new and greatly expanded community-owned hospital, Sister Joaquin retreated to a life of contemplation and prayer in a little hermitage in central Mexico. Appalled by the poverty and sickness around her-the distended stomachs of hungry children, the heart-breaking number of infant deaths from dysentery and other parasitic diseases-she opened a small clinic in her hermitage to treat the villagers, most of whom had never seen a doctor or had any access to health care. Her last years were spent living as a hermit in New Mexico's Christ in the Desert Benedictine Monastery until her death in 2003. "Charity's Sister" is a book that will appeal to students of medicine, Southwest history and women's history, as well as being a testament to one woman's profound strength of will, to one who always sought divine guidance in dealing with adversities in her own life and in the many lives she touched. Mari Gra a has published books on New Mexico history and on western women in medicine. Her memoir, "Begoso Cabin," won the Willa Cather Award from Women Writing the West for best memoir of 2000, and the biography of her physician grandmother, "Pioneer Doctor," was a finalist for the same award in 2006. "Charity's Sister" is the third in a series on women in medicine. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Sunstone Press

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Pioneer, Polygamist, Politician

The Life of Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon

By: Mari Grana

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Pioneer Doctor

The Story of a Woman's Work

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The Story of a Woman's Work

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Begoso Cabin

A Pecos Country Retreat

By: Mari Graña

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A Pecos Country Retreat

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A desire to withdraw to the wild leads to renovating an abandoned sheepherder's cabin and an understanding of the human history and natural environment.

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On the Fringes of Power

The Life and Turbulent Career of Stephen Wallace Dorsey

By: Mari Grana

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The Life and Turbulent Career of Stephen Wallace Dorsey

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Dr. Martha

The Life of a Pioneer Physician, Politician, and Polygamist

By: Mari Grana

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The Life of a Pioneer Physician, Politician, and Polygamist

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Charity's Sister

The Story of Sister Mary Joaquin Bitler, SC

By: Mari Graña

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The Story of Sister Mary Joaquin Bitler, SC

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