Author: APJ Abdul Kalam
Publisher: Rajpal
Keywords: spirit, indomitable
Published: 2007
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8170286549
ISBN-13: 9788170286547

Author: Carlotta Hacker
Publisher: Formac
Keywords: doctors, lady, indomitable
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2001-11-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0887805434
ISBN-13: 9780887805431

As late as 1874 no women were licensed to practice medicine in Canada. Indeed, Canada’s first female doctor, Dr. James Miranda Stuart Barry, was a man. Or so thought her superiors in the British Army.In this fascinating and inspiring account of the courage, heroism, and dedication of Canada’s pioneer women doctors, Carlotta Hacker traces the lives of a wide range of women who worked throughout the world, combining the struggle for women’s rights with remarkable medical achievements. Serving in the Canadian West, as missionaries in China, Tibet, and India, or advancing knowled

Author: Kristie C. Wolferman
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Keywords: missouri, heritage, readers, series, education, women, mary, easton, sibley, pioneer, indomitable
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0826218059
ISBN-13: 9780826218056

When Mary Easton was four, her father was appointed attorney general for the District of Louisiana and the Eastons became one of the first American families to settle in St. Louis. At fifteen, she married George Champlin Sibley, the factor of Fort Osage in Western Missouri, where the young bride lived among the Indians on the edge of the frontier and took up teaching. She then went on to found Linden Wood in St. Charles, the first college for women west of the Mississippi, and she also taught classes for African American and immigrant children. This is the first account to fully draw on Mary a