Why Debutantes Volunteered to Be Horse-Riding Couriers in Rural Kentucky
Source: Smithsonian
Couriers’ duties included fetching patients from cabins, weighing babies, delivering medicine, cleaning saddles and bridles, and escorting any guests who rode the routes between FNS outposts. Courtesy of Frontier Nursing University “Debutante to Be Courier in Wilds of Kentucky Hills,” read a 1938 Baltimore Sun headline about a messenger for the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), which dispatched horseback-riding…
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