Border Healing Woman: The Story of Jewel Babb as told to Pat LittleDog (second edition) 9780292747531

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Border Healing Woman

Photographs by Ann Savino

BORDER

: DEALING WOMAN The Story of Jewel Babb as told to Pat LittleDog with a new epilogue by Pat LittleDog

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, AUSTIN

Copyright © 1985, 1994 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Second edition, 1994 Fifth printing, 2007 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/bpermission.html ® The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Babb, Jewel, 1900Border healing woman : the story of Jewel Babb / as told to Pat LittleDog ; with a new epilogue by Pat LittleDog.—2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-292-70822-8 (pbk.) 1. Babb, Jewel, 1900. 2. Healers—Texas—Biography. 3. Traditional medicine—Texas. 4. Healing—Texas. I. LittleDog, Pat, date. II. Title. RZ408.B32A3 1994 615.8'52'092—dc20 [B] 93-49350

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