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Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star by Matthew Kerns EPUB

Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star is a biography of John B. "Texas Jack" Omohundro, the first well-known cowboy in America. A Confederate scout and spy from Virginia, Jack left for Texas within weeks of Lee's surrender at Appomattox. In Texas, he became first a cowboy and then a trail boss, jobs that would inform the rest of his life. Jack led cattle on the Chisholm and Goodnight-Loving trails to New Mexico, California, Kansas and Nebraska. In 1868 he met James B. "Wild Bill" Hickok in Kansas and then William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody in Nebraska at the end of the first major cattle drive to North Platte. Texas Jack and Buffalo Bill became friends, and soon the scout and the cowboy became the subjects of a series of dime novels written by Ned Buntline.

Buffalo Bill's best friend, Wild Bill's favorite cowboy, husband of the most famous ballerina in the world, Texas Jack's life provided the foundation and inspiration behind the cowboys that would follow on stage, in print, and on the silver screen. Fierce foe of the Sioux and stalwart friend of the Pawnee, Texas Jack was the original cowboy in America's "cowboys and Indians" stories.

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