Mail Order Groom: Doctor Westcott, The Dark Cowboy (A Clean Western Historical Romance)
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Mail Order Groom: Doctor Westcott, The Dark Cowboy (A Clean Western Historical Romance) is about a distraught doctor who can take no more of sickness and death in cholera-ridden New York City, and he answers an ad in the Mail Order Brides section of the newspaper, from a woman seeking help on her ranch and friendship; but not marriage. He decides to keep his doctor past hidden, and his inexperience at everything that she had asked for, also hidden. His only worry is that she will find out and give him the boot. Getting help from the young son of a family the rancher woman took in, he begins his journey of deception, not knowing how his life will end up.
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Mail Order Groom - Helen Keating
Mail Order Groom: Doctor Westcott, The Dark Cowboy
(A Clean Western Historical Romance)
By
Helen Keating
Copyright 2015 Classic Western Romances Presents
Synopsis: Mail Order Groom: Dr. Westcott, The Dark Cowboy, is about a distraught doctor who can take no more of sickness and death in cholera-ridden New York City, and he answers an ad in the Mail Order Brides section of the newspaper, from a woman seeking help on her ranch and friendship; but not marriage. He decides to keep his doctor past hidden, and his inexperience at everything that she had asked for, also hidden. His only worry is that she will find out and give him the boot. Getting help from the young son of a family the rancher woman took in; he begins his journey of deception, not knowing how his life will end up.
In the 1800s, New York City was booming. With the Erie Canal being completed in 1825, it brought the city to its height, making it a booming city with traders, bankers, ship-builders, craftsmen and every trade imaginable moving into the promised city. The city became home for immigrants from all over Europe, and by the year 1850, the city had grown in population by 46%.
However, with the booming of the city, also came the side effects of its growth; diseases. From small pox, yellow fever, measles, malaria to the dreadful cholera, the city was hit like no other, and because of all the growth that had come into the city, the diseases flourished and became quite common. Many diseases were seasonal, and they would hit suddenly, stay to an unusual extent, and then disappear.
The hundreds of thousands of traders that had come from ports from all over the world had brought the deadly diseases with them, leaving the city in horror at the consequences of its prosperity. This opened the gates of any quack doctor to experiment with his own ideas. Many of the laws that once stood regarding practicing medicine went out the window, and it took only the word of one who claimed he was a doctor, half the time they were not even checked out first.
Their so-called practices were, at the most; experiments, and they always caused more harm than good.
The diseases quickly spread, while a city was ravaged with no real evidence of any kind of treatment.
Because many residents that came down with the dreadful disease, Cholera, the diseases was blamed on the poor. Cholera actually came from contamination of water and food and came with horrible ailments such as diarrhea and vomiting that led to dehydration, which then led to death.
The medical field at that time had no teachings in cleanliness and the importance of clean water was not thought about, which brought the disease to its core of death. When people were being cared for, the most important precautions were ignored, such as making sure they would receive clean water. Sanitary measures were ignored.
Cholera hit in 1832 and traveled from the trade routes from India, through Russia and Europe, to across the Atlantic and into Canada and on down the Hudson River Valley. Thousands and thousands died within a weeks’ time when it hit.
A massive overcrowding occurred in the city, and it wasn’t just of humans, but also of livestock. Horses and pigs were let to run loose, creating stench and foul traces of their uses; not only from the animals themselves, but also from tanneries, slaughterhouses and the likes that dirtied the streets and the air.
Outhouses were used for the human population as well, and were built in between other buildings, while even up to dozens of families sharing the same ones. Municipal sanitation services were close to none, and this left the poor people of white and black to take on the tasks for very low wages.
Many who were very well off were able to leave New York City when they heard Cholera was on its way, but this left many more that could not afford to escape its path. Cholera hit again in 1849 and yet again with a vengeance in 1866, and it was not until then that the medical field finally began learning how to contain cholera. Numerous doctors and nurses during the years of cholera had reached the limits of patience, and many had lost their minds and even left their careers due to the exhaustion of not being able to save such a huge number of people.
One doctor in particular, Dr. Paul Westcott, finally decided that he no longer wanted to be a doctor, and as he had watched his patients die, one after another, so he began trying to find ways in which he could leave New York City and his livelihood as well.
This is a story about Dr. Westcott and his long dedication to medicine and healing people and how the rage of cholera caused him to seek out a life of remaining hidden. It became his greatest desire to run as fast and far as he could away from New York City and to find a way to lay down his medicine bag, finally.
Going back to the year of 1849 when cholera had reached New York City for the second time, Dr. Westcott was only a thirty-year-old medical doctor who had finished his studies and exams mere years after the disease hit the city the first time.
He was well aware that he had not received enough training for such a disease, but he devoted his life to saving who he could save.
He had left his schooling at a young age of sixteen due to his teacher recommending him for the medical field and he was considered high above his fellow peers in school and was released from high school early and sent to a medical college in New York City.
Just as he had finished his exams, he moved out on his own and began looking for a practice. Only months later would he be thrown into a world of a horrific experience that would devastate him totally. Then, on June 26th, 1849, an Irishman would fall deathly ill. His wife and children died to the disease, leaving him to survive alone.
Over the following two weeks, cases spread like wildfire. Within a two-month period, the disease would kill 3,500 residents of New York City. Since the disease first struck within the poor communities, the nation became convinced that it was a poor man’s disease. The poor were soon accused of being full of sin and this was their punishment, and sadly, many were left completely untreated.
The victims of cholera who came from the rich class were kept secret and the ones being reported were only the poor. This did not help matters in trying to fight the killer, and it only made things more difficult, plus, doctors weren't united in their approach to the illness. This caused a war within the medical field, as one would take the side of the rich, leaving other medical doctors defending the poor.
To add to the problem was the fact that the medical field was not very advanced at this early stage in history and instead of understanding what the disease was and where it came from, they made themselves excuses that only picked on the poor. They did not believe that cholera was contagious for a long time and this, of course, made things much worse.
Nurses were very scarce and to find one who was willing to stand alongside a doctor in treating victims was quite rare. There also were not places to care for the victims in New York City, while owners of buildings were too afraid to offer a place.
The doctors who were willing to care for the sick were made to travel from place to place because there were no hospitals available, no room for the abundance of sick people. Many