Buggies, Blizzards, and Babies by: Cora Frear Hawkins / First Edition / ISBN: 9780813803951 / Non-Fiction History/Biography / Hardcover / Good Condition
Buggies, Blizzards, and Babies is a 1971 biographical non-fiction book by Cora Frear Hawkins, published by the Iowa State University Press.
Publisher: Iowa State University Press (Ames, Iowa) Publication Year: 1971 (First Edition)
Length: 191 pages (with black-and-white photographs and chapter vignettes)
Subject / Genre: Medical biography / Turn-of-the-century Americana
Subject Matter: The Country Doctor: The book is a nostalgic and factual account based on the recollections of the author's father, Dr. Edwin D. Frear, and his life as a rural physician.
Early Medical Calls: Cora often accompanied her father on his horse-and-buggy medical rounds as a child and later assisted him in his office.
Setting: It captures rural life at the turn of the 20th century, detailing horse-and-buggy travel, early automobiles, prairie blizzards, floods, quarantines, and family life.
Buggies, Blizzards, and Babies by: Cora Frear Hawkins / First Edition / ISBN: 9780813803951 / Non-Fiction History/Biography / Hardcover / Good Condition
Buggies, Blizzards, and Babies is a 1971 biographical non-fiction book by Cora Frear Hawkins, published by the Iowa State University Press.
Publisher: Iowa State University Press (Ames, Iowa) Publication Year: 1971 (First Edition)
Length: 191 pages (with black-and-white photographs and chapter vignettes)
Subject / Genre: Medical biography / Turn-of-the-century Americana
Subject Matter: The Country Doctor: The book is a nostalgic and factual account based on the recollections of the author's father, Dr. Edwin D. Frear, and his life as a rural physician.
Early Medical Calls: Cora often accompanied her father on his horse-and-buggy medical rounds as a child and later assisted him in his office.
Setting: It captures rural life at the turn of the 20th century, detailing horse-and-buggy travel, early automobiles, prairie blizzards, floods, quarantines, and family life.
