mr. know wnoel was a local m. he started accumulating books when he was a teenager and continued until he was in his 80s. over his lifetime he accumulated over 200,000 volumes. if we have a gem in the . it's one of the books we're most proud of. it's in the original binding from 1699 and it was once owned by a very famous scientist. you can sees his written his name i. newton. around we are not pulling it out so much anymore because it is starting to flake away on the title page. >> an american history tv looked at civil war era medical practices at the pioneer heritage museum. >> pioneer medicine is a long stretch of what it is today. you can consider that the things that we take for granted today when we go to the doctor, things like the instruments being as germ free as possible or the doctor has washed his hands before he decides to work on us. we use the term lossly for doctors when we talk early medicine. a loft the doctors in our region were self taught or they had worked under somebody else self taught and