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Thursday Night Lecture Series featuring author Matthew Kerns
April 21, 2022, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
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On Thursday, April 21, Matthew Kerns, author of Texas Jack: America’s First Cowboy Star (2021), will make a presentation at the Will Rogers Memorial Museum about Texas Jack, one of the first well-known cowboys in America.
About the title:
“John B. “Texas Jack” Omohundro, began as 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.”
