Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 55, Number 3, 1987

Page 72

^^There Goes Matilda^': Millard County Midwife and Nurse BY D A V I D A . H A L E S

about the midwives who sacrificed their time, energy, and talents to bring new life into the world and to minister to those gallant women who bore and raised

N U M E R O U S ACCOUNTS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN

Mr. Hales is associate professor of library science at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.

Above: Matilda Hales, ca. 1890. All photographs courtesy of author.


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