Nell McCarthy with her nursing school classmates at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, Washington, where many people traveled to go to medical school in the Flathead's early days. Date unknown. (courtesy of the Northwest Montana History Musuem)
April 30, 2023
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Women settlers brought community to the Flathead Valley
Women and their labor were vital to many aspects of life in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Some accounts from history might have you believe they were not in NorthWest Montana at all, but slowly and surely they made their way out West.