General Jeb Stuart News Today

By 1840 there were 48 Nix families living in Georgia, about 35 percent of all Nixs in the USA. In this column, I will highlight a few noteworthy north Georgia

     The West has always been that unknown, that unexplored frontier, something mystical and primitive to be feared and conquered, and many Americans, like John Omohundro, better known as Texas Jack, became one of those frontiersmen. In Matthew Kern’s new book “Texas Jack: America’s First Cowboy Star,” he strips away the romantic myth of the American cowboy and gives a raw and honest expose of a legendary icon of the West. The book took three and half years to write; two years of r...