Sohn THE HEALERS OF 19TH-CENTURY NEVADA Signed 1st Edition 1997.

Near fine in near fine jacket. New Brodart protective cover.

Signed and inscribed on title page to Nevada author Sally Janzani. From her personal library.

Until the Comstock Lode discovery in 1859, the territory comprising the present state of Nevada was little more than crisscrossed trails to California and Oregon. Before the Comstock strike, an estimated 7,000 Indians were the major inhabitants in the area, making the medicine man the most important medical practitioner. Utah Territory was protected by United States Army units with their surgeons who established the first hospitals. Along with Army doctors, an eclectic collection of civilian physicians flocked to the territory to practice medicine and seek their fortune. Soon has pieced together previously unknown information on 641 medical doctors, who practiced in the last settled area of the continental United States.