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Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star

By Matthew Kerns

Book information

Publisher
TwoDot
Year
2021
ISBN
9781493055425, 2020054577, 2020054578, 9781493055418
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3961039 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-29 12:44:47
BIO006000Biography & AutobiographyHIS036140HistoryNonfiction

Description

Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star is a biography of John B. "Texas Jack" Omohundro, the first well-known cowboy in America. A Confederate scout and spy from Virginia, Jack left for Texas within weeks of Lee's surrender at Appomattox. In Texas, he became first a cowboy and then a trail boss, jobs that would inform the rest of his life. Jack lead cattle on the Chisholm and Goodnight-Loving trails to New Mexico, California, Kansas and Nebraska. In 1868 he met James B. "Wild Bill" Hickok in Kansas and then William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody in Nebraska at the end of the first major cattle drive to North Platte. Texas Jack and Buffalo Bill became friends, and soon the scout and the cowboy became the subjects of a series of dime novels written by Ned Buntline.

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