Author: Matthew Kerns
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493055429
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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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.
Author: Pierre Dubois
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 180044933X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Texas Jack is a legendary hero, a crack shot and a champion of the helpless who gunned down dozens of enemies ... in his travelling show and the novels that bear his name! In reality, though, he’s never been west, and has never shot at anyone. So when a government agent asks him to go to Wyoming to face a bloodthirsty maniac, his first reaction is to say no. Yet to preserve his reputation, he eventually takes the job, and leaves with his three co-stars in the show ...
Author: John Crittenden Duval
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803265677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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In 1835, Texas offered young men like John C. Duval a chance for action and glory. That year he and his brother, Burr, the sons of a former governor of Florida, organized a volunteer company called the "Mustangs." Like Davy Crockett, they were fired up "to give the Texans a helping hand on the road to freedom" from Mexican rule. The first chapters of Early Times in Texas lead up to the Goliad Massacre on Palm Sunday 1836, in which Burr (referred to as Captain D?) was killed. John was luckier. After a hair-raising escape from Goliad, he wandered across the countryside, dodging the Mexicans and living by his wits.ø ø The diary that Duval kept during these exciting months was the basis for Early Times in Texas, which was published more than fifty years later, in 1892. In the intervening years he was a Ranger known as "Texas John" and later was recognized as one of Texas's first men of letters, the author of The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace
Author: James K. Greer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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John Coffee Hays was a soldier, surveyor, Ranger, officer in the Mexican War, and explorer, Tennessee and Mississppi were already part of him. He was one of the keymen who maintained the Republic of Texas and then helped make it into a state. Yet he left San Antopnio for the Gila River country to head an Indian agency, and went on to California, where he was a sheriff, Federal surveyor general, and town developer before he entered his long period as gentleman ranchman and capitalist, to say nothing of his influence in politics and his exemplary life.
Author: Craig D. Hillis
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292734638
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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The history of the people of Bosque County Texas.
Author: Jack Jackson
Publisher: Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN: 9780876112236
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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For decades Texas History Movies taught thousands of school children the varied history of Texas, from Columbus to the discovery of oil. Though the original version is now considered racist, it was for many students their first and only taste of Texas history.
Author: Pierre Dubois
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1800449348
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Jack and his friends, still attached to Marshal Sykes’ posse, are on their way to Eagle Town to rendezvous with a cavalry detachment. Yet there are still questions marks hanging over his mission. Too many ambushes, too many coincidences ... Not to mention that the idea of sending a circus act to fight a deadly bandit remains a preposterous idea to Sykes ... and that the presence of the too-beautiful Amy creates tensions between the two teams.
Author: RJ Scott
Publisher: Love Lane Books Limited
ISBN: 1785640518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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Riley Hayes, the playboy of the Hayes family, is a young man who seems to have it all: money, a career he loves, and his pick of beautiful women. His father, CEO of HayesOil, passes control of the corporation to his two sons; but a stipulation is attached to Riley's portion. Concerned about Riley's lack of maturity, his father requires that Riley 'marry and stay married for one year to someone he loves'. Angered by the requirement, Riley seeks a means of bypassing his father's stipulation. Blackmailing Jack Campbell into marrying him ""for love"" suits Riley's purpose. There is no mention in his father's documents that the marriage had to be with a woman and Jack Campbell is the son of Riley Senior's arch-rival. Win-win. Riley marries Jack and abruptly his entire world is turned inside out. Riley hadn't counted on the fact that Jack Campbell, quiet and unassuming rancher, is a force of nature in his own right. This is a story of murder, deceit, the struggle for power, lust and love, the sprawling life of a rancher and the whirlwind existence of a playboy. But under and through it all, as Riley learns over the months, this is a tale about family and everything that that word means.
Author: James K. Greer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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"Centennial series of the Association Former Students, Texas A & M Univ. ; no. 50." Hay's colorful reputation and a host of nicknames earned during battles.
Author: John Rosenfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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