Cowboys and Indians -- The Virginian -- Texas Jack -- Holding Down the Fort -- Ned Buntline -- The Grand Duke -- The Grand Buffalo Hunt -- Indians and Cowboys -- The Earl of Dunraven -- The Scouts of the Prairie -- The Peerless Morlacchi -- The Scouts on Tour -- End of the Pawnee Lifeway -- Payday -- Romance for Texas Jack -- The Scouts of the Plains -- A Season Offstage -- Last Ride with Buffalo Bill -- Centennial 1876 -- General Custer and Wild Bill -- On the Hunt -- The Texas Jack Combination -- Return to Yellowstone -- Texas Jack's Troubles -- Dr. Carver -- The Cowboy, the Count, the Wizard, and the Doctor -- The Final Tour -- Leadville, Colorado -- Curtain Call.
Summary:
"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 lead 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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