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TEXAS JACK
The White King of the Pawnees
The Hero of this sketch, J.B. Omohundro, better know as Texas Jack, was born on James river, in Eastern Virginia, in the month of July 1874, and is, therefore, twenty-seven years old. He was a wayward child, and at the early age of nine years ran away from home, but was captured and brought back by his father, and remained at home discontented until eleven years of age, when his second attempt at decamping was successful, and he wandered around among the drovers and stock-raisers until the breaking out of the war, and being of Southern blood, espoused the "lost cause," returned to his home, and entered into the Confederate service under Floyd. Afterward, he was assigned as a scout under Major General J. B. Stuart, then in command in Northern Virginia. He had delivered a dispatch to General Stuart but a second before he was killed.
He served during the entire war, and, at its close, returned to Texas and entered upon a sailor's life, cruising along the eastern coast, thence to the West Indies and South America, embracing a period of eighteen months. Was wrecked on the coast of Florida and worked his way back to Texas. This is was in 1866. He then became a "cowboy," acting as guide to the drovers between the Colorado and Rio Grande rivers. He had the reputation of being the best guide in the country, and his services were sought after by every drover of that region. The Texas cattle trade then to k northward direction and Jack opened the first route and drove the first herd of cattle numbering 3, 000 head, through the Induan territory to Western Kansas. He then guided herds to Abilene, Kansas, and to a point on the North. Platte, in the State of Nebraska.
These journeys were long and tedious and were attended by danger at every point. Bands of hostile Indians infested tie entire route and to baflie these lurking, murdering ends required not only a man of bravery but of judgment and cunning superior to that of the savages. In this, he was eminently successful. When all other means failed, Texas Jack was worth a regiment of soldiers in an attack, and his yell when a charge was made is said to have been heard for miles, and to have carried dismay into the ranks of the red devils. In 1870–'71 he hunted in Nebraska and made the acquaintance of Buffalo Bill. He Joined the Government scouts in February last, and during the past season hail command, by order of General Walker, of 3,200 Pawnee Indians on their summer hunt.
The writer of this article received through General Walker the information that Jack had managed the Indians better than any of his predecessors, and that his report was the most acceptable of any received at the Indian Office. So highly did the Indians regard him that ho earned the well-deserved title of "the White King of the Pawnees."
His hairbreadth escapes from, death at the hands of the redskins have been numerous, and to him on one occasion was Buffalo Bill Indebted for his life. It happened in May 1872, on the Loun Fork river, Minnebraska, wheres a band of Sioux Indians stole some horses. The red thieves were pursued and overtaken by Bill and Jack, who each killed an Indian. 41

TEXAS JACK
The White King of the Pawnees
The Hero of this sketch, J.B. Omohundro, better know as Texas Jack, was born on James river, in Eastern Virginia, in the month of July 1874, and is, therefore, twenty-seven years old. He was a wayward child, and at the early age of nine years ran away from home, but was captured and brought back by his father, and remained at home discontented until eleven years of age, when his second attempt at decamping was successful, and he wandered around among the drovers and stock-raisers until the breaking out of the war, and being of Southern blood, espoused the "lost cause," returned to his home, and entered into the Confederate service under Floyd. Afterward, he was assigned as a scout under Major General J. B. Stuart, then in command in Northern Virginia. He had delivered a dispatch to General Stuart but a second before he was killed.
He served during the entire war, and, at its close, returned to Texas and entered upon a sailor's life, cruising along the eastern coast, thence to the West Indies and South America, embracing a period of eighteen months. Was wrecked on the coast of Florida and worked his way back to Texas. This is was in 1866. He then became a "cowboy," acting as guide to the drovers between the Colorado and Rio Grande rivers. He had the reputation of being the best guide in the country, and his services were sought after by every drover of that region. The Texas cattle trade then to k northward direction and Jack opened the first route and drove the first herd of cattle numbering 3, 000 head, through the Induan territory to Western Kansas. He then guided herds to Abilene, Kansas, and to a point on the North. Platte, in the State of Nebraska.
These journeys were long and tedious and were attended by danger at every point. Bands of hostile Indians infested tie entire route and to baflie these lurking, murdering ends required not only a man of bravery but of judgment and cunning superior to that of the savages. In this, he was eminently successful. When all other means failed, Texas Jack was worth a regiment of soldiers in an attack, and his yell when a charge was made is said to have been heard for miles, and to have carried dismay into the ranks of the red devils. In 1870–'71 he hunted in Nebraska and made the acquaintance of Buffalo Bill. He Joined the Government scouts in February last, and during the past season hail command, by order of General Walker, of 3,200 Pawnee Indians on their summer hunt.
The writer of this article received through General Walker the information that Jack had managed the Indians better than any of his predecessors, and that his report was the most acceptable of any received at the Indian Office. So highly did the Indians regard him that ho earned the well-deserved title of "the White King of the Pawnees."
His hairbreadth escapes from, death at the hands of tho redskins have been numerous, and to him on one occasion was Buffalo Bill Indebted for his life. It happened in May 1872, on the Loun Fork river, Minnebraska, wheres a band of Sioux Indians stole some horses. The red thieves were pursued and overtaken by Bill and Jack, who each killed an Indian. 41