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Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star
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Historical FiguresRegional: West
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ISBN10: 1493055410
ISBN13: 9781493055418
Publisher: Two Dot Books
Published: May 1 2021
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781493055418
Publisher: Two Dot Books
Published: May 1 2021
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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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