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unusual facts about Charles Goodnight


Laura Vernon Hamner

In the early 1890s, while she assisted her father in his newspaper work in Claude, she met Charles Goodnight and his wife, Mary Ann, In 1935, six years after Goodnight's death, she wrote The No-Gun Man of Texas, a novel-ized biography of the legendary cattleman, former co-owner of the large JA Ranch.


John Chisum

In 1866-67, Chisum formed a partnership with cattlemen Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving to assemble and drive herds of cattle for sale to the Army in Fort Sumner and Santa Fe, New Mexico, to provide cattle to miners in Colorado as well as provide cattle to the Bell Ranch.


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