A Half-Century of Nursing Narratives in Butte, Montana, 1900–1950

Henrietta Shirk, associate professor of communications, and Elaine Hunter, assistant professor of nursing, both at Montana Tech, offer highlights of an ongoing collaborative research project examining nursing in Butte during the first half of the twentieth century, a transitional period in which nursing moved from a barely respectable vocation that required no formal training to a recognized profession that demanded extensive education.