To the Ends of the Earth: Women's Search for Education in Medicine

Mary Canaga Rowland died in 1966 at the age of 93. Her life spanned one of our planet's most eventful eras. When she was a young girl, her family and neighbors hid from raids by the Sioux Indians on their frontier settlement. In her later years, she was fascinated by newsreels of atomic explosions. Her life as a doctor was always at the core of her existence, as she describes in a poem at the end of the book, "Many nights of patient vigil behold the miracle of childbirth, again and again, and ease the pain of passing from this world."