Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight developed the Goodnight-Loving Trail in 1860 to drive cattle from Texas to Colorado. Oliver Loving was mortally wounded by Indians during a cattle drive. Bose Ikard was one of the riders on the Goodnight-Loving Trail and became one of the best known black cowboys in Texas history. John Baker Omohundro, also known as "Texas Jack", was a famous cowboy and actor who performed in stage shows with Buffalo Bill Cody. Cowboy boots originated from English Wellington boots and were adopted by American cowboys due to their durability, later becoming a symbol of the American West.

1. “The Lone Star . . . . .”

2. “The Lone Star State”

3. United States of America

4. • COWPOKE
• COWPUNCHER
• COWHAND
• BUCKEROO
• A real Cowboy will come and help
his neighbors and friends. He will feed
strangers and their horses and not
ask questions. A real cowboy will stay
free and be independent.

5. Interesting facts about Cowboys
Oliver Loving
(December 4, 1812 – September 25, 1867)
was a cattle rancher and pioneer of
the cattle drive who with Charles
Goodnight developed the Goodnight-
Loving Trail. He was mortally
wounded by Indians while on a cattle
drive. Loving County, Texas, the
smallest county in the United States in
population, is named in his honor.

6. Charles Goodnight
Charles Goodnight was Oliver Loving's
partner in the famous cattle drive from
Texas to Colorado in 1860. They had a
record 2,000 head of cattle and eighteen
riders along. He and his wife Molly
founded Goodnight College and his life is
also loosely chronicled in the famous
book and movie “The Lonesome Dove”.

7. Bose Ikard
One of the riders along during the historical
“Goodnight-Loving Trail” drive, which created
a lifelong friendship between him and Charles
Goodnight. Originally from Mississippi, he was
born into slavery and went to Texas in 1852
where he became one of the best known black
cowboys in Texas history. He was inducted into
“The Texas Trail of Fame” in 1997.

8. John Baker Omohundro
1846-1880
Nicknamed “Texas Jack”, was a folk figure, actor.
A former scout, Confederate soldier, newspaper
correspondent and pop figure of his day.
"Texas Jack" Omohundro was a friend of
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody and James Butler
"Wild Bill" Hickok. In 1872, Jack and Buffalo
Bill, both famous figures from dozens of dime
novels, created a stage show featuring the
well-known scouts as live actors.
Popular dime novel writer Ned Buntline
wrote the first script for "Scouts of the Praire”
in about four hours; Wild Bill Hickok later
joined the show. Just a month before his 34th
birthday, Texas Jack got pneumonia and died in the thriving mining
town of Leadville, Colorado. "Texas Jack" was posthumously elected to
the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, and received the
Wrangler Award in the Hall of Great Western Performers for his career
as both a working cowboy and actor.

9. COWBOYS / THE OLD WEST

10. Cowboy Boots, Hats and Jeans•
Cowboy boots are inevitably linked with the myth and legend of the great American West.
The West, with its dramatic, often unforgiving landscape and unsettled, often dangerous
reputation, was the perfect backdrop for larger-than-life tales of honor, valor, betrayal, and
romance. These tales, both real and imagined, were peopled by a cast of highly evocative
characters as fascinating as the West itself. Lone gunslingers, hardened rangers herding epic
cattle drives across the open range, and sheriffs and outlaws battling it out all took place
among the buttes and arroyos of the Wild West. And the one thing linking all these uniquely
American folks together, especially as we recall them today, is their
unmistakable uniform of cowboy boots, hats, and jeans.
It might come as a surprise, then, that cowboy boots have their origins
in an English creation, the Wellington boot. This shorter, military-
oriented boot had its origins in a series of requests made by the Duke of
Wellington for the modification of traditional Hessian cavalry
footwear (a yet older antecedent of cowboy boots). The new style soon became wildly popular
among the social elite, a craze which eventually filtered down to the masses.
Due to their military roots, Wellington boots were relatively nondescript, which means they
took easily to mass production. Antebellum cowboys, a fairly poor demographic group with a
need for resilient footwear, took to Wellingtons en masse. However, after the Civil War, when
westward expansion redoubled, cowboys became more highly paid, and were thus able to
invest in higher quality goods. Well-made saddles, formerly a luxury, became a staple. The
same is the case with cowboy boots, a nascent fashion trend which combined the workhorse
utility of the Wellington with the filigreed touches more elegant footwear. (It is this marriage
that lends even the most affordable, tough cowboy boots an aesthetically pleasing edge). Style,
a luxury once reserved for the rich, became ingrained in the fabric of daily cattle-driving life
via cowboy boots.
Today, cowboy boots continue to embody this happy union, loved by laborers and the luxe
alike. Tough yet stylish, hardworking yet handsome, and always making a statement, they
embody that ruggedly individual essence of Texas also known as the American spirit.