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Sawbones in Siskiyou

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This book contains many interesting facts about the family as well as historical information. This book held my interest from beginning to end. I recommend this book to anyone that has an interest in historical events and family histories.

You will enjoy this book even if you are not a relative or former patient of Dr. Meamber. It is a good read.

You can look at history from the top down: kings, presidents, and world events. Or you can see the past through the eyes of a family: marriages, work, and home life.

This book is that second kind of history -- the life of a family and a community, told by a guy that you wish were your next-door neighbor.

Anecdotes abound: delivering beer during the depression (and nearly running down a motorcycle cop on a dirt road); researching human growth hormone in the 1930's, serving in the medical corps during the war in the Pacific, then delivering babies in the hinterlands. Here's the textured life of a country doctor, back when house calls were the norm.

Beyond being the tapestry of one man's life, this book serves as a joyous model for genealogical reports ... weaving family stories and photos into the cloth of local and world events.