Jack Campbell, born in Garnett in 1868, roamed around the West, working for famous Western novelist Zane Grey, touring Europe with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and performing with the Miller Brothers’ 101 Ranch Wild West Show. He ended up in Ottawa as a barber whose shop was festooned with relics of his wilder early days—rifles, ropes, canes, even a pair of Indian beaded leather gauntlets given to him by William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody himself. During the World War II era he served as an Air Raid Warden.
Jack Campbell, Ottawa barber and former cowboy