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Art and Impulse, Fire and Skill
In the late 1860s and early 1870s, there was no bigger star in America than Giuseppina Morlacchi. Morlacchi was trained at la Scuola di...

Matthew Kerns
Mar 25, 20222 min read



Matthew Kerns
Mar 25, 20220 min read


Texas Jack's LiveStory
Our Texas Jack LiveStory was featured on MyHeritage's blog! https://blog.myheritage.com/2022/03/people-are-amazed-by-livestory/ I've...

Matthew Kerns
Mar 21, 20221 min read


The Star of the Show
It bears repeating that though the men appearing in The Scouts of the Plains—the scout Buffalo Bill Cody, the cowboy Texas Jack...

Matthew Kerns
Mar 19, 20221 min read


A Gift From the Earl
This double-barrel shotgun was made for Texas Jack by James Dalziel Dougall & Sons, a gift from Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of...

Matthew Kerns
Mar 15, 20221 min read


Morlacchi At Home
On Thursday, March 14, 1895, 127 years ago, a farmhouse in Billerica, Massachusetts, caught fire in the middle of the night and burned...

Matthew Kerns
Mar 13, 20225 min read


Wild West April 2022
On shelves and in mailboxes now is Wild West's April 2022 issue with a cover story about Texas Jack Omohundro, his friendship and...

Matthew Kerns
Mar 2, 20221 min read


Life of Texas Jack
One 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 Kerns
Feb 23, 202213 min read


Underground
“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 Kerns
Feb 19, 20225 min read


Looking for Love
As Valentine's day approached in 1873, two young men from Cincinnati, Ohio, sought to impress "an unlimited number of young ladies" by...

Matthew Kerns
Feb 10, 20221 min read


The Scouts of the Plains Meet the King of the Wild Frontier
From January 22nd to the 27th of 1874, Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack, and Wild Bill were starring as The Scouts of the Plains in Cambridge,...

Matthew Kerns
Jan 24, 20224 min read


Texas Jack & The Grand Duke
In the New York Herald coverage of the Grand Duke's buffalo hunt, we read plenty about Alexis, General Sheridan, Lt. Col. Custer, Buffalo...

Matthew Kerns
Jan 17, 20224 min read


The Imperial Buffalo Hunter
On January 14, 1872, Grand Duke Alexis of Russia set of on a buffalo hunt on the Nebraska prairies with Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack...as...

Matthew Kerns
Jan 14, 202210 min read


January 4 1872
December had been quiet on the Nebraska prairie, but winter had come and the new year would bring nothing but excitement for Texas Jack...

Matthew Kerns
Jan 5, 20222 min read


The Centre of Attraction
In late 1878, Texas Jack and Doctor Carver prepared for a series of shooting exhibitions with a long stop in Wilmington, North Carolina. ...

Matthew Kerns
Dec 23, 20212 min read


Alexis and Spotted Tail on a Buffalo Hunt
Looking back, it might seem inevitable that Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack would become stars. They were handsome, fearless, and photogenic....

Matthew Kerns
Dec 21, 20215 min read


A Brief Interlude - Ice Storm
Back in the late 80s, I guess I was 8 or 9 years old, there was this old man that lived a street away from us. His name was Vet, or at...

Matthew Kerns
Dec 15, 20213 min read


Ballerinas Of The Wild West
On December 16th, 1872, The Scouts of the Prairie premiered in Chicago. It was the first stage western, and it made its titular stars,...

Matthew Kerns
Dec 6, 20213 min read


Texas Jack In the Timber Island
This long poem about Texas Jack is from the 1890 book May-Day Dreams, Passion Flowers, Poetic Flights and Prosy Thoughts by Sam Brown...

Matthew Kerns
Dec 3, 202115 min read


Otto Franc
Texas Jack led four groups of European aristocrats on hunting expeditions in Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado. In all four cases, those...

Matthew Kerns
Nov 30, 20215 min read
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