Miss Morissa: Doctor of the Gold Trail

by Mari Sandoz

Book Overview

Miss Morissa is a dramatic, moving novel of a young pioneering woman doctor on the brawling Nebraska frontier of the 1870s. Fleeing the East and a heartbreaking past, Morissa Kirk finds the North Platte River Valley rife with rumors of gold strikes. Fortune hunters, desperadoes, horse thieves, murderers make up the frontier society, while Indians roam the plains refusing to surrender their land to the gold-hungry white men. Near lawless Clarke...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803291183
• ISBN13: 9780803291188
• Release Date: March 1980
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"