Edward Zane Carroll Judson, better known to the American public that devoured his stories as Ned Buntline, died 133 years ago on July the...

By the spring of 1874, Texas Jack and Buffalo Bill had finished two complete dramatic tours. The first, The Scouts of the Prairie with...

139 years ago today, on June 28th, 1880, Texas Jack Omohundro died in Leadville, Colorado. Just 33 years old, Jack had squeezed a lot of...

143 years ago, Texas Jack was in Philadelphia getting ready to participate in the events of the American Centennial. His plans would soon...

How is Texas Jack Omohundro, a cowboy who rose to fame in the 1870s, connected to one of the greatest horror books and movies ever made? ...

75 years ago today, only one general landed by sea with the first wave of troops to brave the beaches of Normandy. The man who led the...

On June 3rd, 1876, Texas Jack Omohundro and Buffalo Bill Cody played their last show together at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington,...

182 years ago, on May 27, 1837, James Butler Hickok was born in Homer, Illinois. When he met Texas Jack Omohundro in Hays City, Kansas...

Before they were legends of the Wild West, the three men who would be billed as "The Scouts of the Plains" were soldiers—veterans of the...

Often we talk of the Civil War as a war where brothers fought brothers. For Flora Cooke Stuart, it was a war between the two most...

On April 20th, 1876, the Scouts were playing in Springfield, Massachusetts. The first act of their play Life on the Border had just...

Newspaper advertisements from the 1870s show that in different cities, different men were given top billing. Initially Ned Buntline, as...

In April of 1873, as Texas Jack and Buffalo Bill were playing to packed houses at Niblo's Garden on Broadway, a new play was announced at...

“Donald McKay, the leader of the Warm Springs braves, is a man just six feet high and well proportioned, the son of a noted Scotch...

On April 12, 1917, John M. Burke passed away in relative obscurity in Washington D.C. and was buried in an unmarked grave. The unmarked...

This portrait, taken some time between 1870 and 1872, shows four Kitkehaki Pawnee men and Baptiste Bayhaylle, a Pawnee interpreter of...

On April 1st, 1873, the Scouts of the Prairie were playing their second show on Broadway. They'd opened in Chicago the preceding December...

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

The Missouri River. The Platte River. The Republican River. While Texas Jack and his friend Buffalo Bill Cody were scouting, hunting...

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