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Donati, Sara

 
9781984805065: The Sweet Blue Distance
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ISBN 10: 1984805061 ISBN 13: 9781984805065
Verlag: Berkley Books, 2025

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A young midwife travels west to the New Mexico Territory to care for women in need and faces dangers more harrowing than the ones she’s fleeing in this epic tale of survival, redemption, and love from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of the Wilderness series.

1857: In a bid to outrun her past, Carrie Ballentyne accepts a nursing position with a doctor in the New Mexico Territory. She knows the journey from New York to Santa Fe will not be easy, but nothing could have prepared her for the wilderness she encounters, stunning in both beauty and brutality. To endure, she must learn to rely on her fellow travelers—and one enigmatic man in particular. As she and Eli Ibarra tackle challenge after challenge together, she feels her heart opening to this rugged land—and the man willing to risk so much for her.

The trip west is only the beginning of Carrie’s challenges, though. In Santa Fe, Carrie is beloved by new mothers for her talent and compassion. But when she realizes that her employer and his wife are keeping secrets from her, she must uncover the truth to protect their young daughter. To save the little girl she’s come to cherish, Carrie will have to confront the demons in her own past—a feat that will take all of her bravery and the help of the man she’s come to love and depend on above all others.

The Sweet Blue Distance is the unforgettable story of one woman’s courage to heal herself, her family, and the women and children entrusted to her care.

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Sara Donati is the international bestselling author of Where the Light Enters, The Gilded Hour, and the Wilderness series, which includes Into the Wilderness, Dawn on a Distant Shore, Lake in the Clouds, Fire Along the Sky, Queen of Swords, and The Endless Forest. She is a native of Chicago but currently lives on Puget Sound.

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Part One

Correspondence

Markham to Colby

Samuel Markham, M.D.

Physician and Surgeon

Calle del Convento Viejo de la Parroquia Principal

Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory

November 18, 1856

Michael V. Colby, M.D.

143 East 17th-Street

New York City

Dear Michael,

Many thanks for your letter dated 22nd September, and congratulations to you and Aurelia on the arrival of a healthy grandson. As our Lulu is so young, I can only hope I'll live long enough to be a grandfather, and so I count myself fortunate to have Matthew Markham Colby as a grandnephew.

Not sure if I should congratulate you on the directorship at the New Amsterdam. Of course you deserve it, but why would you want it? If you're tired of practicing medicine, maybe you should give it up and move to your place on Sag Harbor. Or better still, come out west. If Santa Fe doesn't suit, you could try your luck in the Sierra Nevada gold fields.

Our news: Indira is expecting again and due, if my calculations are correct, in July. She's more frightened than she is pleased, given three losses since. You have seen such anxiety-even hysteria-in your own patients, I know. Given all that and with the sincere hope I do not intrude too far, I must ask for your help.

Indira insists she must have a midwife, a woman of good family trained in Richmond, Philadelphia, or New York. She has a strong preference for an American midwife, but an English woman with excellent references would be acceptable to her. This person must be born in either the United States or England. I expect Scotland would pass muster, but Ireland would not.

I think I mentioned to you in my last letter that my assistant John Edmonds has been admitted to the medical school at Bellevue. When we first took him in, I said that if he did well and showed promise, I would underwrite his education, and that time has come. His maturity and intelligence indicate to me that he will do very well in medical school. With his departure imminent, I have to hire a nurse, and from that follows my decision to hire one person who is both nurse and midwife, and to get her here as soon as possible.

You will have noted that I have enclosed a draft of an advertisement. Would you be so good as to look it over and circulate it where you think it might catch the attention of suitable and qualified applicants? Make changes if you think I've been too blunt, but don't soften it up too much. New Mexico Territory isn't the place for gently reared women, as I have learned. If you are up to it, I'd be thankful if you could interview applicants briefly to weed out the inexperienced, unrealistic, or unsuitable ones, as time is of the essence. I am forever in your debt. Please give my love to Aurelia and your many offspring.

Your devoted friend and brother-in-law,

Sam

Wanted:
Nurse-Midwife to Join an Established Medical Practice in New Mexico Territory

Dr. Samuel Markham, originally of this city but resident in Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory, for the last ten years, is seeking a formally trained, experienced nurse and midwife to join his medical practice. This position requires someone who will see patients and assist in his Santa Fe dispensary, but who will also make home visits in the town and environs. Thus the successful applicant must be an experienced rider.

There is a great deal of unrest in the territory. Indian raids and attacks are not uncommon outside Santa Fe and less common within the boundaries of the town, due in part to the presence of the U.S. Army and the garrison. Thus the nurse who joins the practice must be courageous, quick-witted, and able to handle weapons. A truly excellent applicant who has no experience with firearms but is willing to learn will be considered.

To a well-trained, conscientious, compassionate, vigorous, and hardworking individual who is not afraid of the unfamiliar, Dr. Markham offers the following: all costs associated with relocation to Santa Fe; a weekly salary of $15; the use of a good horse and saddle; a private room and board; and services of the household staff. You will take meals with the family (which includes the doctor, his wife, and a young daughter) and be counted as one of their number.

Santa Fe's population is about one-quarter white, including the soldiers at the military garrison; the rest are Mexican, Indian, African, or mixed blood. There are very few Orientals. There are many different tribes in and near Santa Fe, including the Pueblo clans, the Apache, Navajo, and Ute. Other tribes pass through on a regular basis. As Spanish is the lingua franca, the person hired will be required to learn that language within a reasonable amount of time. Further, she must agree to set out for Santa Fe no later than the beginning of May, and to commit to a three-year period of service. In addition to a very liberal salary, Dr. Markham will consider an annual bonus for a person who becomes an asset to the practice and agrees to a longer contract.

Interested parties should first present themselves to Dr. Michael Colby at the New Amsterdam Charity Hospital. If that interview is successful, he will ask you to send a letter of application to Dr. Markham, in which you provide information about your background, your training, and experience.

Dr. Michael V. Colby, Director

New Amsterdam Charity Hospital

notice dated December 15, 1856

Ballentyne to Markham

E. C. Ballentyne

18 Waverly Place

New York, New York

January 4, 1857

Samuel Markham, M.D.

Physician and Surgeon

Calle del Convento Viejo de la Parroquia Principal

Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory

Dear Dr. Markham,

Dr. Michael Colby, a friend of my family, visited on New Year's Day to tell us about a recent letter he had from you.

As a fully trained and qualified nurse and midwife, I listened with great interest to the description of the position you are now trying to fill. Please consider this letter my application for that position. You will soon receive letters of reference from Dr. Colby, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, and the midwife Amelie Savard, a highly regarded and respected practitioner, who happens also to be my cousin, and with whom I apprenticed and trained in midwifery.

I was born on January 31, 1831. I attended school from age six to sixteen, first in the town where I was born upstate, and then at Mrs. Highsmith's Trivium here in Manhattan. At age sixteen I graduated and then began my training at the New Amsterdam. At eighteen I began my apprenticeship with the midwife Amelie Savard. Three years later I began attending births without supervision. Since that time I have attended on average four births a week, some at the New Amsterdam, but more often at the mother's home. I also make home visits when physicians on staff are otherwise occupied and the complaints are not life threatening.

I believe you will find me to be highly capable, clearheaded, decisive, self-possessed in the most chaotic of situations. My first concern is always for the patient's comfort and recovery.

Dr. Colby explained that you seek a midwife and nurse who will not mind living and working away from the conveniences of a city. I assure you that I would welcome such an opportunity. When my mother, then recently widowed, moved us away from the village of Paradise in the Adirondack wilderness to New York City, I was just twelve. My life here in Manhattan has not been lacking in any way, but I have never felt truly at ease here.

Further, I am in good health and capable of working long hours, and I am an accomplished horsewoman. Riding out to see patients is something I would look forward to.

I understand that the person you hire must be willing to work with and...

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Verlag
Berkley Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1984805061
ISBN 13 
9781984805065
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Anzahl der Seiten
779
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