Charles Goodnight Quotes
It looked like everything worth living for was gone. The entire country was depressed -- there was no hope.
Goodnight had fought on the Confederate side. He got himself together and became a very large rancher.
Charles Goodnight. 1836-1929, Texas Rancher, Description of West Texas immediately after the Civil War
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Charles Goodnight, also known as Charlie Goodnight, was an American rancher in the American West, perhaps the best known rancher in Texas. He is sometimes known as the "father of the Texas Panhandle." Essayist and historian J. Frank Dobie said that Goodnight "approached greatness more nearly than any other cowman of history." In 1955, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
