P.S., A Partnership
Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith

"'I Have Doctored Myself as Well as I Could': Laywoman as Medical Practitioner on the Frontier"

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Selected Works

1. Western Women's History

Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier

“This 'patchword' of women's words and pictures captures the pioneer experience memorably and elegantly.”

--Susan Armitage, coeditor of The Women's West and Writing the Range

The Gold Rush Widows of Little Falls

Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: Life on the Home Frontier

“These families come alive in their variety, differences, and particularities. Their stories are told with power and grace, and they merit reading.”

--Annette Atkins

2. Western Family History

Frontier Children

“...a laudable 'verbal and visual montage that celebrates the experiences of children growing up in the American West..."

--Pacific Northwest Quarterly

Frontier House

Opera based on the life and letters of Pamelia Fergus, Montana pioneer. Composer, Eric Funk. Librettists, Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith. Premiered August 1989 in Billings, Montana. Choral Suite from the opera performed in Carnegie Hall, May 1989.

Quicksilver

10-minute musical based on the life and death of Dr. Karen Wetterhahn, Dartmouth University professor of chemistry who died in 1996 from a single drop of dimethylmercury. Music by Alfredo Alverez. Book and Lyrics by Linda Peavy

A Mountain on Her Mind

25-minute musical (radio drama format) based on life of Annie Smith Peck, classicist turned alpinist.

Mountains That Matter

Full-length musical based on the life of Annie Smith Peck, classicist turned alpinist. Music, lyrics, book by Linda Peavy; arrangments by Daniel Acquisto

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