Matthew Kerns3 days ago1 minTexas Jack in Texas Highways MagazineMy book is featured in a wonderful piece in Texas Highways Magazine, the official travel magazine of Texas. Gene Fowler, the author of...
Matthew KernsMay 412 minA Southern Belle on the PrairieIn Savannah, Georgia, in late 1868 and through the summer of 1869, Ena Palmer's life seemed charmed. She was the favorite child of her...
Matthew KernsApr 281 minTexas Jack dans Diabolo Le Mustang SacreThis is from the French Coq-Hardi publication, done by artist Marijac (Jacques Dumas). This comic comes from just after World War II,...
Matthew KernsApr 267 minApril 26, 1872On April 26, 1872, Bill Cody rode out of Fort McPherson, Nebraska, in pursuit of a party of Miniconjou Sioux raiders and horse thieves....
Matthew KernsApr 231 minA Talk about Texas Jack at the Will Rogers MuseumOn April 21, I talked with the good people at the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma, about Texas Jack, the rise in...
Matthew KernsApr 52 minRisarusiritiriku (Baptiste Bayhylle)Risarusiritiriku (Baptiste Bayhylle) The Chief They All Look To. Bayhalle's Pawnee name has been recorded both as Lasharasereterrek, "One...
Matthew KernsApr 41 minThe Scouts on BroadwayOne hundred and forty-nine years ago this week, Texas Jack Omohundro, Buffalo Bill Cody, Ned Buntline, and Giuseppina Morlacchi made...
Matthew KernsMar 291 minBook Signing - April 2 in Dalton, GAFor anyone in southeast Tennessee or Northwest Georgia, I'll be signing and selling copies of Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star...
Matthew KernsMar 271 minTexas Jack - The White King of the PawneesIn late March of 1873, as the Scouts of the Prairie prepared to make their New York City debut at Niblo's Garden on Broadway, a new dime...
Matthew KernsMar 252 minArt and Impulse, Fire and SkillIn the late 1860s and early 1870s, there was no bigger star in America than Giuseppina Morlacchi. Morlacchi was trained at la Scuola di...
Matthew KernsMar 211 minTexas Jack's LiveStoryOur Texas Jack LiveStory was featured on MyHeritage's blog! https://blog.myheritage.com/2022/03/people-are-amazed-by-livestory/ I've...
Matthew KernsMar 191 minThe Star of the ShowIt bears repeating that though the men appearing in The Scouts of the Plains—the scout Buffalo Bill Cody, the cowboy Texas Jack...
Matthew KernsMar 151 minA Gift From the EarlThis double-barrel shotgun was made for Texas Jack by James Dalziel Dougall & Sons, a gift from Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of...
Matthew KernsMar 135 minMorlacchi At HomeOn Thursday, March 14, 1895, 127 years ago, a farmhouse in Billerica, Massachusetts, caught fire in the middle of the night and burned...
Matthew KernsMar 21 minWild West April 2022On shelves and in mailboxes now is Wild West's April 2022 issue with a cover story about Texas Jack Omohundro, his friendship and...
Matthew KernsFeb 2313 minLife of Texas JackOne of the challenges to writing a biography of a man like Texas Jack is separating fact from fiction, the man from the folk hero. A lot...
Matthew KernsFeb 195 minUnderground“I haven’t given up hope,” said the miner’s wife, four days after his disappearance in the mine. “If only they can get to him in time.” ...
Matthew KernsFeb 101 minLooking for LoveAs Valentine's day approached in 1873, two young men from Cincinnati, Ohio, sought to impress "an unlimited number of young ladies" by...