Charles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry--an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher.
This fascinating biography enriches our understanding of a Texas icon..
As entertaining as it is informative, Hagan\'s account takes readers back to the Palo Duro Canyon and the Staked Plains to share insights into the cattleman\'s life--riding the range, fighting grass fires, driving cattle to the nearest railhead--the very stuff of cowboy legend and lore.
Hagan also presents a clearer picture than ever before of Goodnight\'s business arrangements and investments, including the financial setbacks of his later life.
Hagan shows how Goodnight learned the cattle business and became one of the most famous ranchers of the Southwest.
Goodnight came up in the days when much of Texas was free range and open to occupancy by any cattleman brave enough to stake a claim.
The first major reassessment of his life in seventy years, Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle traces its subject\'s life from hardscrabble farmer to cattle baron, giving close attention to lesser-known aspects of his last thirty years.
Hagan in this brief, authoritative account that considers the role of ranching in general--and Goodnight in particular--in the development of the Texas Panhandle.
Goodnight\'s story is now re-examined by William T.
Charles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry--an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher
