National Library of Medicine – Doctor Sophie Herzog: The Gunfighter’s Physician

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Circulating Now welcomes guest author Chris Enss, to share the story of Doctor Sofie Herzog, one of several women doctors featured in her book The Doctor Was a Woman: Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier. Chris Enss is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for more than thirty years. She has penned more than fifty published books on the subject.

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