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“Donald McKay, the leader of the Warm Springs braves, is a man just six feet high and well proportioned, the son of a noted Scotch...
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Matthew Kerns
- Apr 12, 2019
- 3 min
John M. Burke - Pioneer of Promotion
On April 12, 1917, John M. Burke passed away in relative obscurity in Washington D.C. and was buried in an unmarked grave. The unmarked...
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Matthew Kerns
- Apr 5, 2019
- 2 min
Baptiste Bayhaylle
This portrait, taken some time between 1870 and 1872, shows four Kitkehaki Pawnee men and Baptiste Bayhaylle, a Pawnee interpreter of...
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Matthew Kerns
- Apr 2, 2019
- 1 min
April 1st, 1873
On April 1st, 1873, the Scouts of the Prairie were playing their second show on Broadway. They'd opened in Chicago the preceding December...
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Matthew Kerns
- Mar 24, 2019
- 4 min
Ned Buntline
196 years ago, on March 20th, 1821, Edward Zane Carroll Judson was born. Under his pen name, Ned Buntline, he wrote the stories that...
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Matthew Kerns
- Mar 22, 2019
- 2 min
The Rivers of Nebraska
The Missouri River. The Platte River. The Republican River. While Texas Jack and his friend Buffalo Bill Cody were scouting, hunting...
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Matthew Kerns
- Mar 19, 2019
- 1 min
Spaghetti Western
It bears repeating that though the men appearing in The Scouts of the Plains—the scout Buffalo Bill Cody, the cowboy Texas Jack...
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Matthew Kerns
- Mar 8, 2019
- 2 min
The League of Three; or, Buffalo Bill's Pledge
Today begins the second story of the Dime Library Podcast, and we've chose "The League of Three; or, Buffalo Bill's Pledge," by Colonel...
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Matthew Kerns
- Mar 7, 2019
- 2 min
How the Russo-Turkish War Shaped the American West
What does the Russo-Turkish War have to do with the Wild West? History is a series of inter-connected events, and sometimes things which...
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Matthew Kerns
- Mar 1, 2019
- 1 min
Dime Library Podcast
Just launched! www.dimelibrary.com Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill, and Wild Bill first found fame in the dime novels that were so popular in...
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Matthew Kerns
- Feb 25, 2019
- 3 min
Buffalo Bill on Stage
Buffalo Bill Cody, who was born 173 years ago on February 26, 1846, was a brave man. By the time he turned 26 he had fought in the Civil...
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Matthew Kerns
- Feb 22, 2019
- 1 min
Buffalo Bill, Author
Buffalo Bill wrote quite a few dime novels, but he returned to no character as often as he did Texas Jack. Most of the time, Jack was...
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Matthew Kerns
- Feb 16, 2019
- 3 min
Buckskin & Satin
The love of Texas Jack's life, and the first lady of the American western, was not western at all. She was the world's most famous...
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