Why Debutantes Volunteered to Be Horse-Riding Couriers in Rural Kentucky
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Why Debutantes Volunteered to Be Horse-Riding Couriers in Rural Kentucky

Between the 1920s and 1940s‚ wealthy young women signed up to run errands and carry messages for the Frontier Nursing Service‚ whose nurse-midwives provided care to patients in hard-to-reach areas