How long does it take to read Shadow of the Mountains?
Lynn Morris, Gilbert Morris
Shadow of the Mountains by Lynn Morris, Gilbert Morris takes about 6 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1994. 366 pages, about 100,650 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
With Few Allies, Cheney Faces Two Enemies: Superstition and Greed Cheney Duvall proved to be an excellent doctor to Mercer's Belles on the sea voyage to Washington Territory, but doors of further opportunity remained shut. Despite having graduated with honors from a prestigious university as one of only a handful of female physicians in 1865, Cheney continues to find herself being summarily rejected because she is a woman. Returning to her parents' home in Philadelphia with her nurse, Shiloh Irons, Cheney finds a letter from a dear friend pleading that she come to a remote spot in the Ozark Mountains. The friend is having a baby, and there are no doctors available in the primitive wilderness of Wolf County, Arkansas. Though she is warned about the mountain folks, Cheney feels compelled to go and provide medical care to her friend and the community. But the warnings prove true. The people are superstitious, illiterate, hopelessly resistant to medical science, and hate Yankee--especially educated Yankee female doctors. She also finds her way blocked by a medicine woman of powerful influence among the mountain people. The big land companies further complicate Cheney's efforts, and then she becomes the target for a bullet.
Subjects: Cheney Duvall (Fictitious character), Fiction, Mountain life, Women physicians, Fiction, historical, general, Women physicians, fiction
