The stars for a light

"The mountain people had no doctor. But would they accept a stranger--and a woman?"
"At the request of a pregnant friend who wants her to deliver her baby, Dr. Cheney Duvall journeys to the remote and primitive wilds of the Ozarks and comes face to face with the illiteracy, superstitions, and hatred of the local mountain people."@en
"Dr. Cheney Duvall, finding all doors closed to female physicians in 1865, answers a friend's plea to set up a practice in the primitive wilderness of Wolf County, Arkansas, but she finds herself as equally unwelcome in the mountain community as she was in Philadelphia society."
"Dr. Cheney Duvall, weary of being rejected for jobs simply because she is a woman, jumps at the chance to care for two hundred frontier brides-to-be on a sea voyage from New York to Washington Territory, but with the journey looming before her, Cheney begins to doubt whether she is really prepared for the responsibility."
"Recently graduated from medical school and unable to find a job, Cheney Duvall accepts a position aboard a ship bound for Washington Territory with two hundred potential brides-to-be."
"Recently graduated from medical school and unable to find a job, Cheney Duvall accepts a position aboard a ship bound for Washington Territory with two hundred potential brides-to-be."@en