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While researching my book, Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star, I looked many times at the few existing pictures of Jack. So I was...

Matthew Kerns
Aug 29, 20222 min read
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Will Rogers Was No Damned Good
A recent Facebook discussion on the relationship between Texas Jack Omohundro, Texas Jack Junior, and Will Rogers brought up an article...

Matthew Kerns
Aug 16, 20227 min read
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1873 Playbill
A playbill from the Scouts of the Prairie on January 18, 1873, at the Pittsburgh Opera House, starring Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack, Ned...

Matthew Kerns
Aug 8, 20221 min read
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Texas Jack Among The Game
This letter was sent by Texas Jack Omohundro to the Spirit of the Times magazine in July of 1877. In Camp On The Sweetwater, WY...

Matthew Kerns
Jul 20, 20222 min read
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Return of Buffalo Bill & Texas Jack
From the Omaha Evening Bee - July 17, 1873. Yesterday William Cody, otherwise known as Buffalo Bill, and J.B. Omohundro, or Texas Jack,...

Matthew Kerns
Jul 12, 20223 min read
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An Interview with the Greatest Living Path-Finder
TEXAS JACK! An Interview with the Greatest Living Path-Finder He Talks of His Recent Experiences Among the Mountains His Condemnation of...

Matthew Kerns
Jul 9, 20223 min read
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Texas Jack and the Grand Buffalo Hunt
From the Omaha Evening Bee, Saturday, June 22, 1872. TEXAS JACK THE NIAGARA FALLS BUFFALO HUNT SOME INTERESTING PERSONAL FACTS...

Matthew Kerns
Jun 30, 20223 min read
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You Don't Know Jack
Think you know about the American West? You don't know Jack. When Texas Jack died 142 years ago on June 18th, 1880, he was the most...

Matthew Kerns
Jun 28, 20224 min read
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A Weekend With The Codys
From June 16th to 19th, 2022, the Cody Family Association held its biennial reunion in LeClair, Iowa, the birthplace of the Cody family's...

Matthew Kerns
Jun 23, 20225 min read
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Jack's Ranch
There are many different ways that the legacy of Texas Jack Omohundro is obvious in the world today. Texas Jack's Wild West Outfitters...

Matthew Kerns
May 26, 20223 min read
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Texas Jack in Texas Highways Magazine
My book is featured in a wonderful piece in Texas Highways Magazine, the official travel magazine of Texas. Gene Fowler, the author of...

Matthew Kerns
May 21, 20221 min read
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A Southern Belle on the Prairie
In 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 Kerns
May 4, 202212 min read
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Texas Jack dans Diabolo Le Mustang Sacre
This is from the French Coq-Hardi publication, done by artist Marijac (Jacques Dumas). This comic comes from just after World War II,...

Matthew Kerns
Apr 28, 20221 min read
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April 26, 1872
On April 26, 1872, Bill Cody rode out of Fort McPherson, Nebraska, in pursuit of a party of Miniconjou Sioux raiders and horse thieves....

Matthew Kerns
Apr 26, 20227 min read
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A Talk about Texas Jack at the Will Rogers Museum
On April 21, I talked with the good people at the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma, about Texas Jack, the rise in...

Matthew Kerns
Apr 23, 20221 min read
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Risarusiritiriku (Baptiste Bayhylle)
Risarusiritiriku (Baptiste Bayhylle) The Chief They All Look To. Bayhalle's Pawnee name has been recorded both as Lasharasereterrek, "One...

Matthew Kerns
Apr 5, 20222 min read
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The Scouts on Broadway
One hundred and forty-nine years ago this week, Texas Jack Omohundro, Buffalo Bill Cody, Ned Buntline, and Giuseppina Morlacchi made...

Matthew Kerns
Apr 4, 20221 min read
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Book Signing - April 2 in Dalton, GA
For anyone in southeast Tennessee or Northwest Georgia, I'll be signing and selling copies of Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star...

Matthew Kerns
Mar 28, 20221 min read
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Texas Jack - The White King of the Pawnees
In 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 Kerns
Mar 27, 20221 min read
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Matthew Kerns
Mar 26, 20220 min read
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