Thursday, June 28, 2018

Texas Jack Omohundro dies

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1880, John Burwell Omohundro Jr., better known as Texas Jack, died.
Omohundro, born in Virginia in 1846, traveled to Texas while still a teenager and worked trailing cattle.
He served as a scout and spy under Gen. J. E. B. Stuart during the Civil War.
By 1866 he had resumed his life as a Texas cowboy and rode in several early cattle drives, including a drive across Arkansas to Tennessee, where he received his nickname “Texas Jack.” Continued

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