Author: Virginia Miller
Cornell
240 pages
24 contemporary photographs
ISBN 0-9627896-5-8
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demand, over 100,000 copies sold.
About the author
Virginia Cornell formerly owned the Winter Park Manifest, a
weekly newspaper located in a ski resort near Fraser, Colorado. Born Virginia
Miller, her family owned a ski lodge —- Millers Idlewild Inn. As a young girl,
Cornell met the elderly Doc Susie when she was a guest for dinner at the Inn.
Cornell devoted three years to researching and writing this readable biography.
She currently writes a column called "VaCuum" for the Montecito Life and
Carpinteria Herald weekly newspapers near her home in California, where
she has lived since 1984.
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Prizewinner: Two Benjamin Franklin Awards, Publishers Marketing Association
She was beautiful...
She was smart...
She was
dying...
but when Susan Anderson, M.D. learned how badly
mountain people needed her, she hurried to save lives of her patients:
- On trains
- On snowshoes
- On horseback
- On sleighs
- On foot
Her only protector was the trusty .38 in her medical bag.
When Susan Anderson, M.D., stepped from the train into
frigid Fraser, Colorado —- the "Icebox of the Nation" —- she had everything to
die for and nothing to live for. This is the true story of how Doc Susie
recovered her health, then ventured forth on snowshoes, horseback or in
cabooses to save the lives of lumberjacks, miners, ranchers, railroaders and
their families. So desperate were they for medical attention that they didn't
care that she was a mere woman. One woman's search for success and
romance led her to a deeper love; her devotion to her working stiffs thrust her
into confrontation with two of the most powerful men in the state.
Discussion Questions for Doc Susie.
Doc Susie chosen as Grand County One Grand Book, 2005.
Grand County One Grand Book, Supplementary Material for Doc Susie. |
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True West:
The late Ethel Barrymore, who
had seen a photo spread about Doc Susie in a magazine, tried to obtain dramatic
rights to her life story. Doc Susie simply replied, "Fiddlesticks." After
reading Cornell's account, though, one can only agree that Barrymore was on the
right track — Doc Susie was a remarkable person.
— Willah Weddon
Longmont Times-Call:
Few books have been
written that give the feel of the High Country as it is told in "Doc Susie."
— Ruth Lehman
Montecito Life:
Not all of the likeable
characters in this book are humans. Some of them are trains!"
— Tisha
Roth
The story comes alive with palpable detail. I shared Doc
Susie's outrage when she learned that the legislature spent money to guild the
capitol dome, but none was available for diphtheria vaccine to save the lives
of children. I respected her love of cleanliness. But I grieved with her when
she was unable to save a baby's life in the face of certain, irreversible
process.
— Christina Bryan, M.D., Denver, CO |
Booklist:
After coming down with
tuberculosis, she moved into the mountains at Fraser as a layperson. Rumors
that she was a doctor eventually led to her being unmasked, although her first
patient required a "horse call." Workers on the railroad that climbed through
Fraser into the higher mountains and Scandinavian loggers soon gave "Doc Susie"
a full-time practice. The digging of the Moffat Tunnel provided catastrophe,
graft, and humor. Accidents and weather made each day a fresh experience. This
active and human story mixed in just the right amount of cynicism to make it
believable
— William Beatty
Bookwatch:
Three years of research have
contributed to a biography which reads like an adventure novel.
Denver Post:
Doc Susie has long deserved a
good biography and Virginia Cornell has provided one.
— Ed Quillen
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