TEXAS JACK Ep. 5 | “Lies and Statistics”

Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

Arts, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Texas Jack sets the record straight after his honor and reputation are slandered in a newspaper. He leads another hunting trip to Yellowstone National Park, and his trip collides with the Nez Perce as they make their epic run for freedom. Jack races to save tourists who crossed paths with the Nez Perce column, and then he returns to the stage for another tour. But the tour is plagued by theft and other problems, and Jack feels the end of his career on the horizon. For the full story of Texas Jack, check out Matthew Kerns’ book! Texas Jack: America’s First Cowboy Star Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Noiser+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On April 2nd, 1877, Texas Jack's first show without his old friend Buffalo Bill Cody
0:21.2	premiered at New York's Boundary Theatre.
0:24.0	The show was called Texas Jack, or Life in the Black Hills.
0:28.7	And Jack must have been concerned that he wouldn't be able to pull in audiences as he
0:32.5	had in the past with Bill Cody or Wild Bill Hickock.
0:36.7	The previous year, Jack had headed into the Wyoming wilderness following the catastrophic
0:41.9	loss of his hotel to a fire at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
0:47.0	At the same time, Bill Cody returned to the stage to capitalize on his fight with the
0:52.0	Cheyenne warrior named Yellow Hare.
0:54.7	He kicked things off in Rochester in early October 1876.
0:59.3	And by the time Texas Jack's show premiered in April of 1877, Cody had played more than
1:05.0	60 cities in six months.
1:08.1	Newspaper Clippings in a scrapbook kept by Jack's wife answered his concerns.
1:13.8	Texas Jack's play Beats Buffalo Bill's Play All Hollow says one.
1:19.2	Oceans of applause greet Texas Jack at the Bowery Theatre, and Jack unquestioningly
1:23.6	deserves it, reads another.
1:26.3	1876 was a difficult year for Jack.
1:29.5	His old mentor Wild Bill was dead.
1:32.0	His dramatic partnership with his best friend Buffalo Bill was over, and his fortune had
1:36.6	literally gone up in smoke in the Centennial Fire.
1:40.5	Here in the spring of 1877, there was a light at the end of the tunnel.
1:45.2	Little did Jack know that it wasn't the light of salvation.
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