Mari Grana: 3 books
Pioneer Doctor
The Story of a Woman's Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
When Mollie stepped off the train in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1890, she knew she had to start a new life. She'd left her husband and his medical practice behind in Iowa, and with only a few hundred dollars in her pocket and a great deal of pride, she set out to find a new position as a physician. She...
Dr. Martha
The Life of a Pioneer Physician, Politician, and Polygamist
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Dr. Martha tells the fascinating story of Martha Hughes Cannon, the first woman elected to the Utah state senate—in 1896. She was a polygamist wife, a practicing physician, and an astute and pioneering politician. In compelling prose, author Mari Graña traces Cannon’s life from her birth in Wales...
On the Fringes of Power
The Life and Turbulent Career of Stephen Wallace Dorsey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Touted in his time as one of the “great men of the West,” Stephen Wallace Dorsey was a Reconstruction carpetbagger who went to Arkansas and finagled and bribed his way into getting elected to the US Senate after living only two years in the state before heading West to seek his fortune. From a...