Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins
Jul 5, 2026 · 49 min · 19 segments
In this episode we're digging into the disease history books forgot — the plague that quietly reshaped frontier life, drove thousands to chase the Western sky, and left its mark on American cowboy…
Amy HoffmanGuest
Shannon RollinsHost
Kent RollinsHost
So tuberculosis, it's a bacteria, right? It really doesn't stay too long on surfaces, which is kind of nice.
And so it was first discovered kind of as officially a bacteria in the 1800s, in the late 1800s by Robert Koch.
We've seen in Egypt, right, bodies of spine, like the spines are kind of curved, like in an acute angle.
And tuberculosis, it was termed probably 1830s, but it wasn't really used until the 1900s.
So when you had mentioned consumption, now that's the word I know, but I didn't know what that meant or what that was because, like, Kent, I haven't watched a lot of old Western movies.
So tuberculosis, it's a bacteria, right? It really doesn't stay too long on surfaces, which is kind of nice.
And so it was first discovered kind of as officially a bacteria in the 1800s, in the late 1800s by Robert Koch.
We've seen in Egypt, right, bodies of spine, like the spines are kind of curved, like in an acute angle.
And tuberculosis, it was termed probably 1830s, but it wasn't really used until the 1900s.
So when you had mentioned consumption, now that's the word I know, but I didn't know what that meant or what that was because, like, Kent, I haven't watched a lot of old Western movies.
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