Bicentennial Story #3-Dr Stickney-I

Title

Bicentennial Story #3-Dr Stickney-I

Description

Story of the cowboy doctor, Dr. Victor Hugo Stickney, who came to Dickinson from Vermont in 1883.

Date

5/5/1975
12/23/1975

Contributor

Father Louis Pfaller
Jack Hjort

Rights

This recording cannot be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Dickinson Museum Center. This recording may be freely used for education uses, so long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this recording file is permitted without written permission of the Dickinson Museum Center.

Format

mp3

Medium

audio reel, analog, 1/4 inch polyester tape

Language

English

Identifier

BS-003

Spatial Coverage

Dickinson, ND

Rights Holder

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

Transcription

In October 1883, young Doctor Hugo Stickney came to frontier Dickinson from his home in Vermont. He soon became known as the "Cowboy Doctor" for he traveled by horse and buckboard to tend the ranchers for hundreds of miles around. Often he arrived in a cowboys' camp, placed the patient on an inverted wagon box as a table, and operated for a gunshot wound or set a splintered bone. There were no white-clad, skilled assistants to help him. Only bronzed cowhands or homesteaders who looked on helplessly. He gave the anesthetic himself, and sterilized the instruments in a Dutch oven.

This is Bicentennial Story No.3, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller for the Stark County Historical Society.

Rolfsrud, Extra-Ordinary N. Dakotans, 38-39

Original Format

Sound recordings

Duration

1:07

Bit Rate/Frequency

128kbps

Decade

1970 1979

Physical Location

Bicentennial tape #1, Bicentennial stories 1-22

Geolocation

Comments

Allowed tags: <p>, <a>, <em>, <strong>, <ul>, <ol>, <li>

Citation

“Bicentennial Story #3-Dr Stickney-I,” Southwestern North Dakota Digital Archive At the Dickinson Museum Center, accessed March 28, 2024, https://dmc.omeka.net/items/show/392.