124 years ago this week, on October 26, 1895, Buffalo Bill's Wild West made its first stop in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Along with Cody...

By 1868, the year after she first arrived in America, Giuseppina Morlacchi was by far the most famous dancer on the North American...

On October 14, 1912, John Schrank shot former President Theodore Roosevelt in the chest with a .38 caliber Colt Police Special at a...

On this day, October 8, in 1836, Giuseppina Morlacchi was born in Milan, Italy. Trained at La Scala, Morlacchi became one of the most...

On October 3rd, 1873, the Army executed Modoc chief Kintpuash, called Captain Jack, for the deaths of General Edward R. S. Canby and...

Colter Wall's Night Herding Song, from his 2018 album Songs of the Plains, is a good example of the continued fascination for cowboy life....

The following account by Texas Jack appeared in the Sunday issue of the New York Herald newspaper on September 17, 1876. Texas Jack was...

The two sets of foes faced one another across the field of battle, prepared for the coming confrontation. Each side of the conflict had...

"Texas Jack as a Fireman" reads the headline in a scrapbook clipping collected by Jack wife, Giuseppina Morlacchi. Jack was on tour,...

It makes perfect sense that Texas Jack enjoyed a good smoke. He grew up on a Virginia plantation, he fought in the Confederacy during...

On September 5th, 1877, Tȟašúŋke Witkó was killed at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, where he had turned himself in to Army officials mere hours...

Stories of Texas Jack in dime novels began with Ned Buntline's Texas Jack, the White King of the Pawnee, released shortly after Texas...

On August 31, 1873 Texas Jack Omohundro and the Peerless Morlacchi were married in Rochester, New York. The Texas cowboy and the Italian...

When the J & E Stevens Company of Cromwell, Connecticut turned their blacksmithing talents from hardware and hammers to toys in the late...

Prentiss Ingraham, the man who wrote countless dime novels about Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill, and the Wild West, died 115 years ago, on...

Will Rogers was America. Born to a Cherokee Nation family in Oologah, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), Rogers joked that though his...

Just off a quiet stretch of US Highway 34, just 3 miles east of Trenton, Nebraska, stands a 35 foot tall shaft of Minnesota pink granite....

On August 2nd, 1876, Jack McCall walked into Nuttal & Mann's Saloon No. 10, drew his Colt Single Action, yelled "Damn you! Take that!",...

173 years ago today, on July 26, 1846, John B. Omohundro was born on his father's plantation, called Pleasure Hill, near Palmyra,...

On July 25th, 1886, the world lost Giuseppina Morlacchi. Giuseppina, who was called "The Peerless" by the American press, "Josephine" by...