I recently came across a poem I wrote somewhere back in the mid 90s: We were cowboys in our childhood. Indians in the weed-grown lawns...

Doing some image enhancement work on a great old picture of Texas Jack. The inscription, which doesn't look like Jack's signature and was...

This letter was sent to The Field magazine and printed on Saturday, January 10, 1877. It was written by Dr. George Henry Kingsley, who...

For much of American history, it was an insult to call a man a "cowboy." During the American Revolution, cowboys were British loyalists...

My parents love antique malls. I grew up following them down the dusty aisles of shops in small towns around the South with names like...

From The Denver News - September 4, 1892. To one who passes along the streets of Leadville, Colorado, now there is just one feature in...

Texas Jack's legacy in the American West ripples down through generations. We've talked about Otto Franc, who visited the Bighorn Basin...

Texas Jack Omohundro shaped the American West not just in the perceptions of theater-goers who watched him on stage, but through the...

Hush! Talk low! There are listening ears everywhere, Sam! I don't know why, but there is a chill at my heart, and I know my time has...

On one of his cattle drives through Texas in the late 1860s, Texas Jack Omohundro chanced upon a number of ransacked wagons with an...

Texas Jack and Buffalo Bill were THE celebrities of their familiar haunts near North Platte and Fort McPherson, Nebraska. Even before...

One of the first things that happens when I talk about Texas Jack is that someone in inevitably asks “Didn’t he ride with Wyatt Earp and...

Some poets write to win a name, Suppose they do, what matter; I am content to sing the fame Of SCOTT, the matchless hatter. His fame is...

Elijah Priest Greene was born into a wealthy manufacturing family in Amsterdam, New York. His father, William Kimball Greene, owned and...

[The first in a series about the men in this picture.] Eugene Beauharnois Overton is the easiest to track down of the three men who...

It is one of the most recognizable images of western men in existence. Three legends of the Wild West, dressed the part, together in the...

199 years ago, on March 20th, 1821, Edward Zane Carroll Judson was born. Under the pen name Ned Buntline, he wrote the stories that...

One of the most satisfying parts of my research is uncovering rare or unique images of Texas Jack and the cast of characters that...

On Thursday, March 14, 1895, a farmhouse in Billerica, Massachusetts, caught fire in the middle of the night and burned down. The owner...

In 1876, Buffalo Bill Cody and Texas Jack Omohundro joined up as civilian scouts with the Army in pursuit of Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull,...