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| Jack Abernathy holding a wolf by the mouth, with Teddy Roosevelt in the background. (Library of Congress) |
(White Mountain Independent)
John Abernathy, or Jack as he was called, was born in Texas. At the age of 6 he and his older brother would sneak away from home to play piano and violin in the local saloon. Following a Christmas shootout in the saloon with several victims, his parents discovered what he was doing, thus ending his entertainment career.
But that didn’t inhibit the enterprising young man. By the age of 9 he was working as a cowboy, and at 11 he went on his first cattle drive. At 15 Jack was a full-fledged cowboy breaking horses for Charles Goodnight. Continued
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| Abernathy and sons, more on them tomorrow. |
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