Jim Masterson dies...

[Bob Wood]

On this date in 1895 Jim Masterson, brother to Bat Masterson dies of " galloping consumption " in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Jim had been a buffalo hunter, Dodge City peace officer, City Marshal, Deputy Sheriff for Guthrie and Deputy U.S. Marshal.

[Jim Catalano]

What is consumption?

[Bob Wood]

An old and once common term for wasting away of the body, particularly from pulmonary tuberculosis, i.e. T.B.