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Where can I learn more about cattle driver Charlie Goodnight? Did he drive cattle on the Chisholm Trail or what trail?

by | Feb 1, 2003 | Inside History

Where can I learn more about cattle driver Charlie Goodnight? Did he drive cattle on the Chisholm Trail or what trail? Stace Webb Via the Internet J. Evetts Haley wrote Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman, University of Oklahoma Press. You can get it at any used bookstore specializing in the West, or from your local library. Goodnight is also in Walter Prescott Webb’s The Texas Rangers. Goodnight was the prototype for Captain Call in Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove. In the film he was pla


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