Hippocrates in a Red Vest: The Biography of a Frontier Doctor.
[1973] · Palo Alto, California
by Beshoar, Barron B. [Beshoar, Michael].
Palo Alto, California: American West Publishing Company, [1973]. Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 352 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to edges, in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear that includes several small chips. “...A warm, human biography of a frontier doctor who not only brought his compassion and healing talents to the rugged country of southern Colorado, but who envisioned the land as one of myriad opportunities and numerous challenges. By the time he reached his mid-thirties (circa 1866) Michael Beshoar had participated on both sides in the Civil War as a surgeon, had established a private medical practice, had become an editor, legislator, judge, farmer, cotton speculator, businessman, and mayor of Dobytown, the toughest town on the Oregon Trail. Although written with personal insight and understanding....[it] is at the same time an objective, well-researched work, with the succint and lucid style of a professional journalist....This is more than the story of a man -- it is the story of a new horizon, the forging of a western frontier. The book tells of the growth of cities and towns; of the early race wars, presagers of minority clashes almost a century later; of the struggle for land and political power.” (Inventory #: 00537sc)