Author: GARDINER, CHARLES FOX, M.D.; INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS NICHOLL OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, PIKES PEAK LIBRARY DISTRICT
Title: Doctor at Timberline: True Tales, Travails, and Triumphs of a Pioneer Colorado Physician
Description: Colorado Springs, Special Collections, Pikes Peak Library District. 2008, First Edition (Thus). (ISBN: 9781567352542). Illustrated Wraps, 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall. Ill.: Drawings. Paperback, Gently used, very clean and lightly edge-rubbed; 245p.; Doctor Gardiner's classic account of frontier medicine in the Colorado Rockies, first published in 1938 by Caxton Press; this reprint was the centerpiece publication of the 5th Annual Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium entitled: "Doctors, Disease and Dying in the Pikes Peak Region" which took place on June 7, 2008 in Colorado Springs, CO; many new illustrations were added to this fabulous book by PPLD Special Collections librarian Nancy Thaler; Chris Nicholl was Project Director and authored the highly-praised Introduction; See Wynar/Depp 8511. Near Fine.

Keywords: Colorado Medical History, Colorado Pioneers, PPLD Regional History Series, Colorado History, Western Americana Colorado 9781567352542 Drawings


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