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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Frontier Doctor: Observations on Central Oregon and the Changing West

Frontier Doctor: Observations on Central Oregon and the Changing West

Bunting, Robert
Coe, Urling C.

Paperback

Series: Northwest Reprints

Biographies GeneralRegional: Pacific Northwest

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 1962645533
ISBN13: 9781962645539
Publisher: Oregon State University Press
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Frontier Doctor, Urling C. Coe's autobiographical account of his thirteen years in Central Oregon, details the extraordinary experiences of a young physician in a frontier town, from childbirthing to epidemics, broken bones to unwanted pregnancies. In 1905 Coe became the first licensed doctor in what he called the heart of the last pioneer stock country of the West. His colorful, firsthand stories about treating patients--cowboys, rustlers, ranch wives, prostitutes, homesteaders, town boosters, and Native Americans--offer a vivid social history of town and ranch life on the Oregon high desert. They also document the development of a Western boomtown: with the arrival of the railroad in 1911, the wide-open settlement known as Farewell Bend was transformed into an important center of industry, commerce, and culture.

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