(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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