John Horton Slaughter typified the 19th century rawhide-tough breed who settled and tamed the wild Southwest border country. He was born in 1841 in...
John Slaughter – Part 1
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Tuberculosis
The “Lungers” What was it like living with consumption in late 19th and early twentieth century?
Consumption is an early term for tuberculosis. The victims were called “lungers.” Consumption was a dreaded disease, contagious and was often fatal....
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What illness did Jim Bowie have that confined him to a cot just before the final Mexican attack on the Alamo?