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Texas Jack Omohundro. John Baker Omohundro (July 27, 1846 – June 28, 1880), also known as "Texas Jack", was an American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy. Born in rural Virginia, he served the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.
Feb 22, 2023 · Yet Americans largely forgot about Texas Jack Omohundro, the cowboy who first popularized the profession and introduced the lasso to the stage, and whose description of his life on the open range spoke to millions of spectators from programs handed out at each stop of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.
- Matthew Kerns
In 2021, TJA member and author Matthew Kerns released a new biography of Omohundro, Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star.
Feb 11, 2019 · Former Confederate cavalryman Texas Jack Omohundro’s stage career and story book marriage to Italian ballerina Giuseppina Morlacchi were cut short by pneumonia in Leadville, Colorado, where he died in 1880 at the age of 33.
In 1994, over 114 years after his tragic death, John Burwell “Texas Jack” Omohundro was posthumously elected to the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he received the Wrangler Award in the Hall of Great Western Performers for his skills as an original working cowboy and stage actor.
Texas Jack is John Baker Omohundro—soldier, Texas cowboy, frontier scout for the Army, actor, and star. Born in Virginia in 1846, he served as a headquarters courier during the Civil War before joining JEB Stuart's cavalry as a scout.
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John Baker “Texas Jack” Omohundro was a frontier scout and cowboy who joined up with Buffalo Bill Cody to perform in his Wild West Show. Jack was born at Pleasure Hill, Virginia , on July 26, 1846, to John B. and Catherine Omohundro.
