Christmas 1873
What a treat! While most of us enjoy a well-deserved day off on Christmas, the Scouts of the Plains were working twice as hard as normal,...
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Matthew Kerns
Dec 24, 20222 min read
The Scouts in St. Louis (Christmas Eve 1872)
The second stop of The Scouts of the Prarie tour starring Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack hit St. Louis from December 23rd to the 28th. The...
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Matthew Kerns
Dec 18, 20221 min read
Second Show
Though no night after the first would prove to be quite so disjointed and far removed from the script Ned Buntline had jotted down in his...
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Matthew Kerns
Dec 15, 20222 min read
Buffalo Who Sits Down
Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake, known as Sitting Bull, was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux (Húŋkpapȟa / Očhéthi Šakówiŋ) holy man and leader who played a...
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Matthew Kerns
Dec 12, 20222 min read
Texas in South Africa
A diplomat's memories of Texas Jack Junior. From the Abilene, Texas, Reporter-News, December 28, 1954. SOUTH AFRICA'S AMBASSADOR ALREADY...
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Matthew Kerns
Dec 8, 20222 min read
The Star of the Show
Because we know how famous Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack would become, it's easy for us to forget that they were relatively unknown to...
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Matthew Kerns
Dec 6, 20228 min read
Texas Jack in War Paint
It was a quiet Monday afternoon at the Printing House Square offices of the New York Sun newspaper in late October of 1877. An editor...
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Matthew Kerns
Nov 18, 20223 min read
Buffalo Bill & Texas Jack
Three years after his best friend Texas Jack's death in 1880, Buffalo Bill was feeling nostalgic. He had just launched the Wild West...
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Matthew Kerns
Nov 17, 20222 min read
Filling In The Blanks
I maintain a list of known Texas Jack performances, both with Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill and with his own combination, over at...
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Matthew Kerns
Nov 15, 20222 min read
The Most Valuable Image of Buffalo Bill
Is this the most valuable image of Buffalo Bill Cody in the world? Experts estimate that it could fetch upwards of $15 Million at auction...
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Matthew Kerns
Nov 9, 20222 min read
Chief of Men
This is Pitaresaru (Chief of Men), who was the leader of the Chaui band of the Pawnee and head chief of the Pawnee. During the years...
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Matthew Kerns
Oct 19, 20222 min read
The Scouts in Richmond
On Monday Evening, October 18th, 1875, the "Original Select Combination" starring Buffalo Bill Cody, Texas Jack Omohundro, and the...
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Matthew Kerns
Oct 7, 20222 min read
The Law in Hays
From the Burlington, Vermont, Burlington Free Press October 6, 1869. We met at Fort Hays a somewhat notorious character named "Wild Bill."...
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Matthew Kerns
Sep 30, 20222 min read
Lawsuit
In December of 1868, Giuseppina Morlacchi was involved in a lawsuit in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper of December 4,...
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Matthew Kerns
Sep 22, 20228 min read
See Saw
This article appeared in the Leadville Daily Herald on September 21, 1882, two years after the death of Texas Jack. John M. Burke was...
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Matthew Kerns
Sep 21, 20222 min read
Review of America's Best Female Sharpshooter
America's Best Female Sharpshooter: The Rise and Fall of Lillian Frances Smith by Julia Bricklin ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A casual student of history might...
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Matthew Kerns
Sep 18, 20223 min read
The Scouts in Nashville
One September 19th and 20th, 1873, The Scouts of the Plains played the Grand Opera House in Nashville, Tennessee. Buffalo Bill and Texas...
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Matthew Kerns
Sep 9, 20224 min read
Shantytown Fire
There were only three legal buildings on Elm Avenue by September 9, 1876. Three buildings where the owners had filed permits, built...
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Matthew Kerns
Sep 8, 20224 min read
Texas Jack at the Centennial
Texas Jack made big plans for the 1876 American Centennial celebration in Philadelphia, with no way of knowing that just about everything...
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Matthew Kerns
Aug 29, 20222 min read
Image Enhancement CdV
While researching my book, Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star, I looked many times at the few existing pictures of Jack. So I was...
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