From the Cincinnati Times and Chronicle, Monday, December 30, 1872: INDIAN SLAYERS ON OUR STREETS They Pay Their Respects to the Press...

What a treat! While most of us enjoy a well-deserved day off on Christmas, the Scouts of the Plains were working twice as hard as normal,...

The second stop of The Scouts of the Prarie tour starring Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack hit St. Louis from December 23rd to the 28th. The...

Though no night after the first would prove to be quite so disjointed and far removed from the script Ned Buntline had jotted down in his...

Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake, known as Sitting Bull, was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux (Húŋkpapȟa / Očhéthi Šakówiŋ) holy man and leader who played a...

A diplomat's memories of Texas Jack Junior. From the Abilene, Texas, Reporter-News, December 28, 1954. SOUTH AFRICA'S AMBASSADOR ALREADY...

Because we know how famous Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack would become, it's easy for us to forget that they were relatively unknown to...

It was a quiet Monday afternoon at the Printing House Square offices of the New York Sun newspaper in late October of 1877. An editor...

Three years after his best friend Texas Jack's death in 1880, Buffalo Bill was feeling nostalgic. He had just launched the Wild West...

I maintain a list of known Texas Jack performances, both with Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill and with his own combination, over at...

Is this the most valuable image of Buffalo Bill Cody in the world? Experts estimate that it could fetch upwards of $15 Million at auction...

This is Pitaresaru (Chief of Men), who was the leader of the Chaui band of the Pawnee and head chief of the Pawnee. During the years...

On Monday Evening, October 18th, 1875, the "Original Select Combination" starring Buffalo Bill Cody, Texas Jack Omohundro, and the...

From the Burlington, Vermont, Burlington Free Press October 6, 1869. We met at Fort Hays a somewhat notorious character named "Wild Bill."...

In December of 1868, Giuseppina Morlacchi was involved in a lawsuit in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper of December 4,...

This article appeared in the Leadville Daily Herald on September 21, 1882, two years after the death of Texas Jack. John M. Burke was...

America's Best Female Sharpshooter: The Rise and Fall of Lillian Frances Smith by Julia Bricklin ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A casual student of history might...

One September 19th and 20th, 1873, The Scouts of the Plains played the Grand Opera House in Nashville, Tennessee. Buffalo Bill and Texas...

There were only three legal buildings on Elm Avenue by September 9, 1876. Three buildings where the owners had filed permits, built...

Texas Jack made big plans for the 1876 American Centennial celebration in Philadelphia, with no way of knowing that just about everything...