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	Charles Goodnight: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Goodnight (March 5, 1836 – December 12, 1929) was a cattle rancher (additional info and facts about cattle rancher) in the American West (additional info and facts about American West).
		Goodnight developed a practical sidesaddle (A saddle for a woman; rider sits with both feet on the same side of the horse) for his wife to use.
		After his wife's death in April of 1926, Goodnight became sick, but was nursed back to health by Corinne Goodnight, a 26 year old nurse and telegraph operator from Butte, Montana (additional info and facts about Butte, Montana), with whom Charles had been corresponding because of their shared surname.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_goodnight.htm (524 words)

	Inventory of the Charles Goodnight Correspondence: 1898-1938
		Charles Goodnight, rancher, pioneer wildlife preservationist and stock breeder, was born 5 March 1836, in Macoupin County, Illinois.
		Charles Goodnight was born 5 March 1836, in Macoupin County, Illinois.
		Goodnight joined Capt. Jack Cureton's rangers, with whom he served as a scout and guide, participating in the raid on 18 December 1860 in which Cynthia Ann Parker was recaptured from the Comanche Indians.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/tamucush/00125/00125-P.html (2318 words)

	Charles Goodnight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Goodnight (March 5, 1836 – December 12, 1929) was a cattle rancher in the American West.
		Charles Goodnight statue outside of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum at the West Texas AandM University campus.
		In addition to raising cattle, Goodnight preserved a herd of native American Bison, which survives to this day, and also experimented with crossbreeding buffalo with domestic cattle which he called cattalo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Goodnight (459 words)

	Charles Goodnight Last Updated 11/30/01
		Charles Goodnight, born in 1836 in Macoupin County, Illinois, entered the cattle business on the northwest Texas frontier at the age of 20.
		In addition, Goodnight was a pioneer in the use of artificial watering facilities and the ownership of permanent ranges in fee.
		Charles Goodnight's papers are housed in the Research Center of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas.
	www.over-land.com /st_goodnight.html (751 words)

	Encyclopedia: Charles Goodnight
		Charles Goodnight, rancher, the third of four children of Charles and Charlotte (Collier) Goodnight, was born on March 5, 1836, on the family farm in Macoupin County, Illinois.
		Goodnight continued freighting cotton and provisions to Houston and back for a time until Wes Sheek married, then assumed the bulk of responsibility of looking after the growing herd of scrawny, wild Texas cattle.
		Goodnight spent most of the war chasing marauding Indians and border toughs while ranging from the Canadian to the Colorado and Brazos headwaters with the likes of James E. McCord, James B. (Buck) Barry,and A. Obenchain.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Charles-Goodnight (1416 words)

	Information about U.S. Proofcard®: 29¢ Charles Goodnight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Goodnight, a bowlegged, bearded bull of a rancher with a penetrating gaze, was such a man. Born in Illinois in 1836, Charlie had moved with his parents to Texas when he was 10 years old.
		Goodnight became noted for developing one of the nation's best-blooded herds through the introduction of Hereford bulls, creating "cattalo" by breeding buffalo to polled Angus cattle, as well as helping to prevent the extinction of the buffalo.
		Charles Goodnight died in 1929 at the age of 93.
	www.unicover.com /EA4PAURI.HTM (444 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - Charles Goodnight
		Goodnight was born in 1836 in Macoupin County, Illinois, but moved to Texas at ten years of age with his mother and stepfather.
		Goodnight joined the Texas Rangers in 1857 and fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War.
		A pioneer in cattle breeding, Goodnight crossed the tough but scrawny Texas longhorns with the more traditional Herefords to produce a longhorn breed that was both independent and commercially lucrative.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/d_h/goodnight.htm (576 words)

	Lonesome Dove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Goodnight said later that the Pecos was "the graveyard of a cowman's hopes -- I hated it!".
		Goodnight later wrote of Loving, "one of the coolest and bravest men I have ever known, but devoid of cautionI selected Bill Wilson, the clearest headed man in the outfit as his companion." Loving detested riding at night and felt that it only slowed them down.
		Charles Goodnight felt that the delay was due to their being "rebels".
	home.hiwaay.net /~dbennett/ldstory.html (1767 words)

	Charles Goodnight - Old West Gravesites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Goodnight found his friend Loving, saw the situation and the arm was removed.
		Charles Goodnight was one of the first to ranch in the Texas Panhandle and acquired a joint venture in the famous JA Ranch.
		Charles Goodnight is buried in the Goodnight Cemetery in Goodnight, Texas.
	www.fpcc.net /~sgrimm/charles_goodnight.htm (388 words)

	The Real "Lonesome Dove"
		Goodnight was born on March 5, 1836, in Macoupin County, Ill. He moved his family to Milam County, Texas, in 1845 with his stepbrother John Sheek, taking a herd of cattle from the Brazos River to the Keechi Valley, Palo Pinto, Texas.
		Goodnight and Wilson had to coerce the doctor to amputate the arm, but it was too late to save Loving.
		Goodnight was responsible for saving one of the few remaining buffalo herds.
	www.ejlanham.com /TheRealLonesomeDove.html (1741 words)

	Charles Goodnight - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Goodnight (March 5, 1836- December 12, 1929) was a cowboy in the American West.
		In April 1926, Goodnight became sick, but was nursed back to health by Corinne Goodnight, a 26 year old nurse and telegraph operator from Butte, Montana, with whom Charles had been corresponding because of their shared surname.
		Several streets in the panhandle are named after goodnight in addition to the Charles Goodnight Memorial Trail and the highway to Palo Duro Canyon State Scenic Park.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Charles_Goodnight (231 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: GOODNIGHT, CHARLES
		Charles Goodnight, rancher, the fourth of five children of Charles and Charlotte (Collier) Goodnight, was born on March 5, 1836, on the family farm in Macoupin County, Illinois.
		Goodnight's herds were not immune from attacks by bandits and Indians, especially during the height of the illicit trade with Comancheros.
		After his wife's death in April 1926, Goodnight fell seriously ill but was soon nursed back to health by Corinne Goodnight, a young nurse and telegraph operator from Butte, Montana, with whom he had been corresponding because of their mutual surnames.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/fgo11.html (3118 words)

	Biography: First Family Charles GOODNIGHT - Macoupin County Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Goodnight was born in Macoupin County IL in 1836.
		After his wife's death, Goodnight became sick, but was nursed back to health by Corinne Goodnight, a 26 year old nurse and telegraph operator from Butte, Montana, with whom Charles had been corresponding because of their shared surname.
		Charlie Goodnight, Jr., was one of four children born on the farm before Goodnight, Sr., died of pneumonia in 1840.
	www.rootsweb.com /~ilmacoup/family/goodnite.htm (609 words)

	MyWestTexas.com - Editorial & Opinion - 09/28/2005 - Visit Charles Goodnight Historical Center, home of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Goodnight is 30 miles southeast of Amarillo on U.S. Highway 287.
		Goodnight was a just man, treating everyone with respect, as evidenced by his relationship with Quanah Parker and his comments about Jose Piedad Tafoya.
		Goodnight was an innovator as well, crossbreeding cattle and buffalo to create a grazing animal that was adapted to the shortgrass prairies of the high plains.
	www.mywesttexas.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=15290597&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=475590&rfi=6 (1047 words)

	Charles Goodnight, Jr. (1836-1929) by Lindsey Howald
		His name was Charles Goodnight, and he happened to be one of the most prosperous cattle herders in the old American West.
		Charles also hung a canvas under the wagon (hammock-style) to carry wood and kindling, which is scarce on the prairies.
		Goodnight’s genius invention is used in cattle drives to this day.
	www.bhil.com /~bhlibrary/DH/cg.html (1260 words)

	Charles Goodnight
		Charles G. was born in Mocoupin County, Illinois in 1836.
		When Charles was getting real old him and his wife started a movie and then a college.
		Charles had made a new herd of cattle called “cattlo”.
	www.ranches.org /Billy's_Goodnight.htm (428 words)

	Charles Goodnight Biography / Biography of Charles Goodnight Biography
		Charles Goodnight was born in Macoupin County, Ill. His father soon died, his mother remarried, and the family moved to Milam County, Tex. At the age of 16 Goodnight was hauling freight with oxteams; at 20 he entered the cattle business with a partner and moved to the frontier in northwestern Texas.
		Goodnight went to Kentucky and married Mary Ann Dyer, and they developed their Colorado land.
		Goodnight was interested in education and, with his wife, founded Goodnight College in Texas.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/charles-goodnight (507 words)

	Goodnight's Buffalo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Goodnight's description of an encounter during a cattle drive to New Mexico may give an idea of just how vast the herds were.
		The remnants of the original Goodnight herd were gathered on the JA Ranch early this year and trucked to a new home in Caprock Canyons State Park near Quitaque.
		Sources: Charles Goodnight articles in Southwest Plainsman newspaper, Dec. 15, 1925, and Jan. 2, 1926, and an undated clip from a 1924 edition of a Clarendon newspaper, all originals at Clarendon College Library; Twyman interview, Amarillo Globe-News Golden Anniversary Edition, 1938.
	home.earthlink.net /~tabletophomestead/memories/Goodnight's_Buffalo.html (552 words)

	JA Ranch
		Goodnight from Pueblo, Colorado to the where the Prairie Dog Fork of the Red River had formed Palo Duro Canyon.
		Charles Goodnight was to provide the know how and the Adair’s the money to purchase the land to control the grazing of at one time almost one million acres of land on both sides of the Palo Duro Canyon.
		Goodnight said, "I took all the good land and all the water I could get." On the second 12,000 acres, Goodnight said, "Well, I scattered all over the Palo Duro canyon; every good ranch in the country, every place a man was liable to come, I took.
	www.ranches.org /JAranch.htm (2304 words)

	National Park Service - Prospector, Cowhand, and Sodbuster (JA Ranch)
		In 1879 Goodnight moved the ranch headquarters to Turkey Creek, farther east, to be closer to the railroad.
		Charles Goodnight founded the ranch in 1876 and the next year went into partnership with John G. Adair.
		The frame-house where Goodnight lived from 1889 until his death in 1929 is still standing in the nearby town of Goodnight, and is used as a private residence.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/prospector/siteb11.htm (488 words)

	Panhandle Plains Historical Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Goodnight (1836 –; 1919) moved to Texas in 1845.
		Courageous, persistent, and innovative, Goodnight served in the Texas Rangers; established the first permanent cattle operation in the Texas Panhandle; and helped save the southern herd of bison from extinction.
		As a member of the Goodnight Circle, you will make an important contribution to the preservation of the region in which Charles Goodnight played such a significant role.
	www.panhandleplains.org /membership/goodnight.php (192 words)

	Charlie Goodnight
		Goodnight shouted through the open windows to the schoolmaster, calling the man outside the building to account for the consequences of his negligence.
		Charlie Goodnight, a legendary cowman and rancher of the high plains of northern Texas, the arid and sandy grasslands of east-central New Mexico, and the range country of southeastern Colorado, became the first to drive a herd of longhorns up the Pecos River, opening the route as a cattle trail in 1866.
		Goodnight would take the $12,000 back to Texas, where he would buy another herd to drive up the Pecos River – up the cattle trail that would now bear his name, and that of his partner – before winter.
	www.desertusa.com /mag04/july/goodnight.html (3475 words)

	Charles Goodnight's CV
		Goodnight, C. Epistasis and the increase in additive genetic variance: Implications for phase 1 of Wright's shifting balance process.
		Goodnight, C. Population differentiation and the correlation among traits at the population level.
		Goodnight, C. Epistatic genetic variance and the effect of founder events on the additive genetic variance.
	www.uvm.edu /~cgoodnig/CJGCV.html (442 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: GOODNIGHT, MARY ANN DYER [MOLLY]
		Charles did not know what to say in order to soothe his wife.
		Adair, Charles Goodnight, Molly, Molly's brother Albert Dyer, and several cowhands moved a herd to the Palo Duro Canyon and put up a two-room cabin about May 1877.
		Charles Goodnight Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/fgo35.html (814 words)

	Search Results for "Charles Goodnight" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was later a pioneer in cattle ranching in New Mexico and Colorado...
		Charles Goodnight, he drove herds into New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming, selling them to government food contractors for Native American reservations.
		Charles co., Md. In 1825 he faithfully led a party of his master's slaves from Maryland, across free territory in Ohio, to Kentucky....
	bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Charles+Goodnight (123 words)

	Did you know? 4141 - LOL Facts - Web Software & Hosting
		Charles Goodnight, co-founder of one of the most important southwestern cattle-drive trails, dies on this day.
		Born in Illinois in 1836, Goodnight came to Texas with his family when he was nine years old, and he thrived in the rugged frontier environment.
		By the time the war ended, Goodnight had also built up a herd of cattle on his ranch in Palo Pinto County, Texas, and he decided to combine his interest in ranching with his ability as a trailblazer.
	www.gigfoot.net /lol/facts/4141.html (492 words)

	Written biography of Charles Goodnight \| Life of Charles Goodnight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Goodnight participated in many Indian fights and earned a distinctive reputation as a guide and scout.In 1866 Goodnight located a ranch in New Mexico and with a partner, Oliver Loving, established the Goodnight-Loving Trail, driving a cattle herd from Texas to New Mexico.
		At his death he was considered "an almost perfect illustration of the cattleman." Further Reading J. Evetts Haley, Charles Goodnight, Cowman and Plainsman (1949), is a sympathetic biography.
		Goodnight's career is discussed in most histories of the cattle industry; Lewis E. Atherton, The Cattle Kings (1961), contains a penetrating analysis.
	www.newessay.com /biographies/Charles_Goodnight-28019.html (254 words)

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