Shaman
Published on 5. June 2012
652 pages
978-1-4532-6375-4 (ISBN)
Description
This New York Times Notable Book is a "sweeping historical drama" of a physician and his family on the Illinois frontier in the nineteenth century (
The New York Times Book Review).
Dr. Robert Judson Cole travels from his ravaged Scotland homeland, through the operating rooms of Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation. In the process, he absorbs their culture and learns native remedies that enrich the classical medical education he received at Edinburgh University. He marries a remarkable settler woman he had saved from illness. The details of how their deaf son manages to become a physician also, despite his handicap, and the story of how the Cole family is sucked into the bloody vortex of the Civil War and survives, makes an exceptional reading experience.
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Content
- Cover page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- PART ONE: COMING HOME
- 1 JIGGETY-JIG
- 2 THE INHERITANCE
- PART TWO: FRESH CANVAS, NEW PAINTING
- 3 THE IMMIGRANT
- 4 THE ANATOMY LESSON
- 5 THE GOD-CURSED DISTRICT
- 6 DREAMS
- 7 THE COLOR OF THE PAINTING
- 8 MUSIC
- 9 TWO PARCELS
- 10 THE RAISING
- 11 THE RECLUSE
- 12 THE BIG INDIAN
- 13 THROUGH THE COLD TIME
- 14 BALL-AND-STICK
- 15 A PRESENT FROM STONE DOG
- 16 THE DOE HUNTERS
- 17 DAUGHTER OF THE MIDE'WIWIN
- 18 STONES
- 19 A CHANGE
- 20 SARAH'S SUITORS
- 21 THE GREAT AWAKENING
- PART THREE: HOLDEN'S CROSSING
- 22 CURSING AND BLESSINGS
- 23 TRANSFORMATIONS
- 24 SPRING MUSIC
- 25 THE QUIET CHILD
- 26 THE BINDING
- 27 POLITICS
- 28 THE ARREST
- 29 THE LAST INDIANS IN ILLINOIS
- PART FOUR: THE DEAF BOY
- 30 LESSONS
- 31 SCHOOL DAYS
- 32 NIGHT DOCTORING
- 33 ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
- 34 THE RETURN
- 35 THE SECRET ROOM
- 36 THE FIRST JEW
- 37 WATER MARKS
- 38 HEARING THE MUSIC
- 39 TEACHERS
- 40 GROWING UP
- 41 WINNERS AND LOSERS
- 42 THE COLLEGIAN
- 43 THE APPLICANT
- 44 LETTERS AND NOTES
- PART FIVE: A FAMILY QUARREL
- 45 AT THE POLYCLINIC
- 46 HEART SOUNDS
- 47 CINCINNATI DAYS
- 48 THE BOAT RIDE
- 49 THE CONTRACT SURGEON
- 50 A SON'S LETTER
- 51 THE HORN PLAYER
- 52 TROOP MOVEMENTS
- 53 THE LONG GRAY LINE
- 54 SKIRMISHING
- 55 "WHEN DID YOU MEET ELLWOOD R. PATTERSON?"
- 56 ACROSS THE RAPPAHANNOCK
- 57 THE FULL CIRCLE
- PART SIX: THE COUNTRY DOCTOR
- 58 ADVISERS
- 59 THE SECRET FATHER
- 60 A CHILD WITH THE CROUP
- 61 A FRANK DISCUSSION
- 62 FISHING
- 63 THE END OF THE JOURNAL
- 64 CHICAGO
- 65 A TELEGRAPH MESSAGE
- 66 THE ELMIRA CAMP
- 67 THE HOUSE IN WELLSBURG
- 68 STRUGGLING IN THE WEB
- 69 ALEX'S LAST NAME
- 70 A TRIP TO NAUVOO
- 71 FAMILY GIFTS
- 72 BREAKING GROUND
- 73 TAMA
- 74 THE EARLY RISER
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND NOTES
- Preview: Matters of Choice
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
