How Susan La Flesche Picotte Became America’s First Native Woman Doctor – Then Built The Hospital Her People Had Been Denied
A teenage girl was critically ill with tuberculosis and influenza.
Susan received the call.
The temperature was dangerously low.
Snow covered the landscape.
Travel itself posed a risk.
Yet Susan harnessed her horses and went.
Accounts of the journey describe temperatures far below zero and deep snow across the reservation.
She found the girl in a small home, extremely sick.
Susan administered what medicine she could.
Then she returned.