From frontier times to the present day, Kentucky nurses have served with
intelligence and energy, always ensuring that their patients received
the best available care. Noted folklorist and oral historian William
Lynwood Montell collects nearly two hundred stories from these
hard-working men and women in Tales from Kentucky Nurses. From humorous
anecdotes to spine-chilling coincidences, tragic circumstances, and
heartwarming encounters, the tales in this lively volume are recorded
exactly as they