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A Prairie Doctor Of The Eighties: Some Personal Recollections And Some Early Medical And Social History Of A Prairie State, Francis A. Long, Maggie E. Long

Centennial Trilogy of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine

On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, it is most fitting that the Centennial Committee of the Medical Center reissue this quite marvelous autobiography by Dr. Francis A. Long. A Prairie Doctor of the Eighties is a valuable book, both in the literary and the historical sense. It is thus my pleasure to provide a Preface to a book about a man I knew and admired.

Francis Long was born on February 16, 1859 and grew up near Kreidersville, Pennsylvania. He worked as a common laborer about the coal mines, in car shops …