Lamps on the Prairie: A History of Nursing in Kansas

Emporia, KS: Emporia Gazette Press, 1942. Very Good/Good. Emporia, KS: Emporia Gazette Press, 1942. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket printed in white and black; 292pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Chips and several long closed tears to jacket extremities, rear jacket flap significantly split along fold, spine sunned, upper board gilt a bit discolored, corners bumped, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound in Good or better jacket.

History of nursing in Kansas from the female "Good neighbors" of the early white settlements to the founding of the first civilian hospital following the Civil War.