Most of the histories of the West are obsessed with the shoot-em-ups. But what about the patch-em-ups? Who had to deal with all that famous carnage? With all the bloodletting depicted by pop culture historians, it almost seems a miracle anyone survived to settle the West. Many of the healers on the frontier based their medicine on Old World practices, while others, like Indian John Derringer used treatments derived from Native American tradition. Francis Schlatter, in Colorado and New Mexico, and Teresa Urrea, in Mexico and Arizona, were spiritual healers who attracted crowds of thousands seeking to be cured. Healers like the Diamond King of Texas offered cures as well as entertainment at medicine shows. This book profiles many of the most significant folk curers, herbalists, faith healers, homeopaths, patent medicine promoters, and medicine showmen. The time and place of their medical practices ranges from the 1870s to the 1930s and from the Wild West to the Midwest.
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