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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
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.
When the ranch is in peace,
no other life is more perfect.
Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys.
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.