CHARLES GOODNIGHT

Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.

It looked like everything worth living for was gone. The entire country was depressed -- there was no hope.

I wish I could find words to express the trueness, the bravery, the hardihood, the sense of honor, the loyalty to their trust and to each other of the old trail hands.

It looked like everything worth living for was gone. The entire country was depressed -- there was no hope.

Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.

I wish I could find words to express the trueness, the bravery, the hardihood, the sense of honor, the loyalty to their trust and to each other of the old trail hands.