"The Gun That Won the West." Winchester and their 1873 model lever-action rifle would eventually become widely known as The Gun that Won...

The state of Texas and Jack Omohundro were roughly the same age when he arrived there, and the influence of the Spanish, French, and now...

The Masked Duel; Or, The Fancy Scout at Bay By “Texas Jack” J. B. Omohundro Vickery’s Fireside Visitor Volume 2 Issue 10 July 1, 1876...

You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire...

In researching Texas Jack, I've read some of the most thorough research, the most thoughtful historical perspectives, and the...

Review from the Chicago Inter Ocean newspaper, December 17, 1872. NIXON’S AMPHITHEATER – “BUFFALO BILL.” “NED BUNTLINE” AND “TEXAS JACK.”...

Before December 16, 1872 there was no “Wild West.” West of the Mississippi River there were gamblers and lawmen, thieves and cowboys,...

This story was printed in Beadle & Adam's The Banner Weekly on November 16, 1889. It is part of a series of purportedly true detective...

Families stuffed with turkey, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie on the last Thursday of November in 1873 couldn't turn on the tv and watch...

Texas Jack had been dead for nine years, and his wife Giuseppina Morlacchi for less than three, when this story about Jack's grave in...

The Papers For The People Dime Novel Symposium concludes tonight (November 5, 2020) at: https://dimenovels.lib.niu.edu/papers-for-the-peo...

The last election Texas Jack could vote in before he left the prairies of Nebraska for the stages of the east with his best friend and...

Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri Chicago, Illinois Oct. 26th, 1872 Mr. J. B. Omohundro (Texas Jack) Fort McPherson, Neb....

The song most often associated with the cancan, and one that Morlacchi occasionally used with her troupe, is Jacques Offenbach's Galop...

The Peerless Giuseppina Morlacchi, who would later become Texas Jack's wife and costar, introduced the scandalous Can-Can dance to...

The love of Texas Jack's life, and the first lady of the American western, was not western at all. She was an Italian danseuse and the...

Texas Jack Omohundro. In September of 1873, three men stood together on a New York stage. On the right was Buffalo Bill Cody, the most...

Working on adding some color to a few Texas Jack images. This is Jack circa early 1873 when the Scouts of the Prairies played in New York...

Texas Jack had the expertise and the luxury of heading out West to explore when he wanted to take a break from acting. But even when the...

I bet you didn't learn this one in school. During the sweltering August heat of the summer of 1903, Annie Oakley—"Little Miss Sure Shot"...