Buggies, Blizzards, and Babies

By Cora Frear Hawkins

Book Overview

Hardcover with fair dust jacket. Author, Cora Frear Hawkins. First Edition, 1971. The Iowa State University Press, Ames, Publisher. Beautiful sky blue cloth boards with black lettering on the spine.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813803950
• ISBN13: 9780813803951
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Iowa State University Press
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Daughter of a country doctor

Cora Frear Hawkins was born in Iowa in 1887. As the daughter of a rural doctor, Cora had the experience of travelling with her father on medical calls and assisting with his practice as she got older. This book is a memoir of those times with her father. It opens with a blizzard that he went out in just before she was born, and closes with his death more than forty years later. It is a slim volume and a quick, smooth read. The chapters are loosely grouped around subject areas such as the life of the wife of a doctor, the buggy and horses that the doctor used, and her period as an office assistant. I am delighted to see that the book has been reprinted. It is well-written enough to be of interest to general readers of all ages. In addition, it should be of specific interest to anyone interested in the history of women, pioneer medicine, or that particular time in US history. Cora herself inspired at least one book for younger readers, so if you are familiar with the book Cora Frear, this might be worth reading as well.