Shadow of the mountains BK.2

Summary: Cheney Duvall proved to be an excellent doctor to "Mercer's Belles" on the sea voyage to Washington Territory, but doors of further opportunity remained shut. Despite having graduated with honors from a prestigious university as one of only a hadful of femaile physicians in 1865, Cheney continues to find herself being summerarily rejected because she is a womaan. Returning to her parents' home in Philadephia with her nurse, Shiloh Irons, Cheney finds a letter from a dear friend pleading that she come to a remote spot in the Ozark Mountains, and there are no doctors available in the primitive wilderness of Wolf Contry, Arkansas. Though she is warned about the mountain folks, Cheney feels compelled to go and provide medical care to her friend and the community. But the warnings prove true. The people are superstitious, illiterate, hopelessly resistant to medical science, and hate Yankees especially educated Yankee female doctors. She also finds her way blocked by a medicine woman of powerful influence among the mountain people. The big land companies furhter complicate Cheney's efforts, and then she becomes the target for a bullet...