Name: Saviors and Saints on the Arizona Frontier
When: Tuesday, April 19
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (AZ time)
Where: Virtual presentation via Zoom. Please register here. Presentation will also be playing in the campus library of Mohave Community College in Bullhead City.
Questions: bhamilton@mohave.edu | 928.758.2420
Health care in early Arizona was hardly reliable and frequently non-existent. Often, settlers were on their own when tragedy struck with women taking on the responsibility for the well-being of their families. And if women were considered incapable of earning the title “Doctor,” they could certainly save souls. Meet a handful of women who influenced the history of the territory through their medical expertise and their spiritual leadership. Theresa Ferrin’s comprehensive understanding of healing herbs earned her the title “Angel of Tucson.” Florence Yount is recognized as Prescott’s first woman physician while Teresita Urrea was sometimes lionized for her hands-on healing powers. Saint Katharine Drexel invested much of her vast fortune in educating Navajo children. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet trudged across the blazing desert enduring untold hardships before arriving safely in the territory to administer to the health and well-being of the children of the desert.
