“I have met a lot of good men, several fine gentlemen, hordes of cunning climbers, plenty of loud-braying asses and plenty of dumb oxen, but I haven’t lived long enough or traveled far enough to meet more than two or three men I’d call great. That is a word I will not bandy around. To me Charles Goodnight was great-natured.” – J. Frank Dobie Whether you know of Charles Goodnight through Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove novels or the annual Goodnight Chuckwagon Cook-off (Goodnig
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