This piece, published in the March 17, 1877 issue of The Spirit of the Times, was written by Texas Jack and later included in the...

Out of the mouths of babes, circa Easter 1873: From Street & Smith's New York Weekly, April 28, 1873. An Opportunity Missed by Texas...

April 13, 1873—Easter—was the last night of The Scouts of the Prairie's long run at Niblo's Garden on Broadway in New York City....

The first official review of Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star is in. The book is released on May 1st, one month away. Have you...

The Three Wonders (Sunday Mercury April 6, 1873) Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill, and Ned Buntline Romantic and Thrilling Incidents The Men...

The first night of Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack's stage career did not go as planned. They had only three days to rehearse a play that...

Does the world need another biography of Texas Jack? That's the question I asked myself. I had planned on writing a novel about Wild...

Scout's Rest, the North Platte, Nebraska home of Buffalo Bill Cody has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. Just over 8...

"Buckskin Sam," was the name given to Samuel Stone Hall by legendary Texas Rangers Bigfoot Wallace and John Ford when Sam served...

Newspaper advertisements had assured the public for weeks that their heroes would soon be treading the boards of theatres and music halls...

Robert McNally's brilliant book The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age is now available in paperback from...

Texas Jack Omohundro and Captain Jack Crawford never shared a stage. Crawford, who joined Buffalo Bill's troupe after Cody and Omohundro...

A lot of interest created by the animated images of Texas Jack and his friends run through the Deep Nostaliga AI, so I thought I'd make a...

Texas Jack, the living Scout, now performing with Buffalo Bill and Ned Buntline in the drama of the “Scouts of the Prairie,” is the hero...

Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star has been delayed one month, and will be released on May 1st. Many authors and their books are...

The following article was originally printed in The Boys of the World, a serial printed by Street & Smith, the same publisher that...

This website, this blog, and its associated podcast, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube branches are largely about the history of the...

It's now February, which means we have just two months until the release of Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star. Have you preordered...

Making an entrance. During the tours he did with Buffalo Bill Cody, whether they were joined by Ned Buntline, Wild Bill Hickok, Kit...

Previously, I shared a piece by Texas Jack about his favorite hunting rifle, the Remington Rolling Block he called Lazy Kate. This...