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Frontier Doctor Hoyt and other 1900s frontier figures
The column Reviews Dr H F Hoyts A Frontier Doctor a narrative of life on northern and southwestern frontiers in the 1870s and 1880s with vivid episodes from Deadwood Las Vegas and Billy the Kid. It notes Hoyts friendships with Jesse James Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, his later service as a surgeon in the Spanish American War, and his current retirement in Southern California. It also notes new books including The North Pole of the Winds by Hobbs and Carl and Anna by Leonard Frank with background on their authors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. F. Hoyt
Houghton, Mifflin Company
Northwest
Southwest
Dr. Hoyt
Minnesota
Tyro
Canada
Deadwood
Jesse James
Frank James
Cole Younger
Las Vegas
Billy the Kid
Pat Garret
Outlaw
Billy
New Mexico
Hoyt
Lew Wallace
Blythe Kid
William H. Bonney
Philippines
California
Putnam's
William Herbert Hobbs
University of Michigan
Greenland
Lawrence Gould
Antarctic
Admiral Byrd
Hobbs
Rockford
Carl and
Anna
Leonard Frank
German Academy of Letters
G. P. Putnam
Ilse Bischoff
Wurzburg
Germany
Frank