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 the Girl Trapper". His poem "Only a Miner Killed" has been cited as the basis for Bob Dylan`s song "Only a Hobo". Jack Crawford became a speaker and performer in music halls and stages all over the US, lecturing on the west, the Sioux Indian Wars and encouraging his audiences to forswear liquor. He also became an active speaker at many reunions of civil war veterans, and film of him is among the last scenes in Ken Burns` epic "The Civil War". One of his most famous exploits included delivering a bottle of whiskey to Buffalo Bill, while on campaign. Cody wrote of the incident in his biography "An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill":