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Till Hell Freezes Over

Till Hell Freezes Over

Anne Barton ’57

LTD Books, 2003

In Till Hell Freezes Over, her fourth mystery novel, author Anne Barton⁠—a.k.a. Dr. Florence Barton (’57 Vet. Med.)⁠—takes us on a journey of murder, mystery, and intrigue with a young veterinarian, Dr. Erica Merrill.

The story takes place during a snowy winter in a backwoods logging community in north-central Idaho. After making a rural house call only to find her client missing, Merrill sets out to look for him and discovers him next door in handcuffs over the body of his murdered neighbor.

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Navajo reservation veterinarian aids scrapie test at WSU

As a veterinarian for the Navajo Nation, Dr. Scott Bender’s practice spans more than 18 million acres in the Four Corners region of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah.

His enormous workload includes treating everything from sheep, horses, cattle, goats, dogs, and cats to elk and cougars. Periodically, he even gets to clean the teeth of a 19-year-old bear at the Navajo Nation Zoo and Botanical Park, Window Rock, Arizona, the only tribal-run zoo in the United States.

“There are 250,000 people who live on the reservation and only four vets to cover them,” he says. “It can be a little daunting at times.”

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