Charles Goodnight—the “Father of the Texas Panhandle”—was not a man who took no for an answer. In 1877, when he ordered his brothers-in-law to build a log cabin to headquarter the massive T Anchor Ranch, the 15 year old and the 28 year old did as they were told—even though Goodnight wanted the structure built on a treeless plain five miles from the nearest source of wood. “It had to take forever,” says “Cowboy Mike” Grauer of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon,
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