TY - BOOK AU - Wells,Rosemary AU - McCarty,Peter TI - Mary on horseback: three mountain stories AV - RT37 .M379 1998 PY - 1998/// CY - New York PB - Dial Books for Young Readers KW - Breckinridge, Mary, KW - Frontier Nursing Service, Inc KW - Juvenile literature KW - Nurses KW - Kentucky KW - Medical care KW - History KW - Women KW - Biography N1 - Kentucky 1923 --; Mountain Medicine --; Ireland of Scotland --; How many starts in my crown --; Mary Breckinridge --; Acknowledgments; 2 N2 - Tells the stories of three families who were helped by the work of Mary Breckinridge, the first nurse to go into the Appalachian Mountains and give medical care to the isolated inhabitants. Includes an afterword with facts about Breckinridge and the Frontier Nursing Service she founded ER -