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Angels on Horseback: Midwives in the Mountains
Angels on Horseback: Midwives in the Mountains
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Angels on Horseback: Midwives in the Mountains

2021
Directed byChelsea Gorham
0h 57m

Explore the life of Mary Breckinridge and her efforts founding the Frontier Nursing Service, whose nurse-midwives traveled by horseback to provide healthcare to those living in a remote, mountainous region of Kentucky.

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Mary BreckinridgeSelf (in Archival Footage)Melanie Beals GoanSusan Stone
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Carlyle Carter
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Ellen Ross
Julia Breckinridge Davis
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STATUSReleased
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NR

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