One hundred and forty years ago today, on July 23, 1886, Giuseppina Morlacchi died at her farm in Billerica, Massachusetts. In her lifetime she was the most famous ballerina in America, "The Peerless" to the press, the woman who introduced the can-can to this country, the first Dove Eye in The Scouts of the Prairie, and the wife of Texas Jack Omohundro. She was buried from St. Joseph's in Lowell, three priests officiating, the attendance small. I had planned to publish a long

For half a century, the Texas Jack Association has worked to keep the memory of John B. "Texas Jack" Omohundro alive — through our biennial roundups, the pages of The Scout, and the family and friends who gather to honor America's first cowboy star. Today we open the next chapter of that work with a refreshed texasjack.org and an announcement about where the road ahead will take us. We're calling it the Road to 150. In 2030, two anniversaries meet in a single place. It will b

A retrospective on the 2026 Texas Jack Association Roundup — and the road to Leadville 2030. I set out from Chattanooga just after five in the morning last Wednesday, driving north toward Richmond, hoping to beat the rush hour through Knoxville and Bristol. It's a long haul to make alone, but I wanted the time. This was my last Roundup as the Association's Vice-President. In October I take over as President, and somewhere, passing from my home state of Tennessee into the Old

On an afternoon in the middle of August 1887, a Liverpool police constable (number 925, the record keeps him that anonymous) arrested a cowboy in Whitechapel and marched him, along with his horse, to the main bridewell. The horse was the charge: the mustang had been ridden through the streets with an unhealed wound festering under the saddle, and the constable meant to have its rider up for cruelty. At the bridewell, though, the officials ran into a difficulty they were not u