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Why Debutantes Volunteered to Be Horse-Riding Couriers in Rural Kentucky

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Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) dispatched horseback-riding nurse-midwives to patients in Kentucky's rural mountains. Couriers' duties included fetching patients from cabins, weighing babies, delivering medicine, cleaning saddles and bridles, and escorting any guests who rode between FNS outposts.

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Why Debutantes Volunteered to Be Horse-Riding Couriers in Rural Kentucky

Between the 1920s and 1940s, wealthy young women signed up to run errands and carry messages for the Frontier Nursing Service, whose nurse-midwives provided care to patients in hard-to-reach areas

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