John Wallace Crawford
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Wallace (Jack) Crawford (1847-1917), known as "The Poet Scout", was an American Civil War veteran, an American Old West scout, and a poet of western lore. He was a scout for General George Crook and General Phil Sheridan, friend of Wild Bill Hickok and co-actor, performer and scout with William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill). In 1875 Jack was appointed as a Captain of the Black Hills Rangers of Dakota. He was famous for his books and poems, many still performed and recorded as songs, such as "The Death of Custer", "Rattlin` Joe`s Prayer" (which became the basis, reset as narrated by a soldier, of the song "deck of cards") where a miner preaches a sermon from playing cards, and "California Joe and...
