Pt 1: Old West Healers and healing
Indian medicine: Native American health before and after the White Man
Lewis and Clark: keelboat physicians
Mountain men: hunting-knife surgeons
Health on the Western Trails: Hope and suffering
Gold camp sawbones: life and death in the Western mining districts
Unsung heroes: Army surgeons on the Frontier
"Granny Remedies": Pioneer Women and Folk Medicine
Miracle Cures: Quackery, fraud, and faith
Homestead doctors: house calls on the Great Plains
"No Prejudice Against Women": Female Physicians in the West
Pt 2: Public Health and Health Education on the Frontier
Sanitation and Public Health
Epidemic diseases in the West
Epilogue: Medicine in the third millennium.