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LITTLE PILLS
AN ARMY STORY BY R. H. McKAY
Formerly Acting Assistant Surgeon United States Army
Being Some Experiences of a United States Army
Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly
A Half Century Ago
1918
PUBLISHED BY
PITTSBURG HEADLIGHT
PITTSBURG, KANSAS
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE |
| FOREWARD. | 5 |
| I. | 7 |
| II. | 19 |
| III. | 33 |
| IV. | 40 |
| V. | 47 |
| VI. | 55 |
| VII. | 67 |
| VIII. | 80 |
| IX. | 89 |
| X. | 100 |
| XI. | 106 |
| XII. | 111 |
| XIII. | 117 |
| XIV. | 122 |
FOREWORD
BY R. H. McKAY
This little sketch of army life on the frontier was first written,merely for the pleasure it might bring to my children in looking it overin after years. It remained in the form of a manuscript for thatpurpose, until some of my friends urged its publication. The merit ofthe story itself, if it has any, lies in the fact of actual experience,but probably a matter of more importance is to call attention to thewonderful changes that have taken place in the fifty years just passed.The term frontier today would be a misnomer. There is no frontier. Theimmense areas of wild and waste country that then existed has vanishedbefo