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Frontier Medicine and Death in a Prairie Childhood
Fragmentary reminiscence recalls frontier medical care in late 1800s Kansas. The narrator describes a country graveyard burial in 1888, a misbirth in 1890, cyclone memories, a local druggist in Bull City, and makeshift remedies for horses and people. Details include a vet father, early Sunday school, a bone hauler named Cook and a court case leading to his wife’s pen sentence, ending with Cook’s body moved to Alton.
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Annis
Williams
Dad
Chas
Patel
J.H. Rhinehart
Bull City
Kansas
Cook