House Calls Without A Horse or Buggy

That's one of the legacies of Susan “Doc Suzy” Anderson, one of the first female doctors in the west. She found it hard to practice her profession after getting a medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1897—there was the prejudice against a female physician, as well as her own health struggles with tuberculosis. She eventually settled in the mountain community of Frazer, Colorado in 1907—its high altitude was cold and dry and good to arrest her disease--where she didn't even t