by Matthew Kerns
TwoDot
Hardcover
From the publisher's website:
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.
Proud to be on the radar...I've watched (and sometimes read) the great books that you spotlight here, and its a real treat to be a real enough author with a real enough book to see my name on your page.
ReplyDeleteHey, Matt. Thank you for the kind words. But also, and foremost, thank you for the book to read. I am so proud and so jealous at the same time.
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