A daring idea and the determination to make it succeed helped Charles Goodnight become one of the most prosperous cattlemen in the American West.
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Charles Goodnight was used to tough times. A dirt farmer's son, he had ridden bareback all the way from Illinois to Texas at the age of nine and had been working full-time to support his widowed mother since he was eleven.
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Charles Goodnight (March 5, 1836 – December 12, 1929) was a cattle rancher in the American West, perhaps the best known rancher in Texas. He is sometimes known as the "father of the Texas Panhandle."...
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Charles Goodnight created the Goodnight Trail ... Co-founder of the Goodnight-Loving Trail, Charles Goodnight was born in Mocoupin County, Illinois on March 5, 1836, Charles moved with his family to Waco, Texas in 1846 when he was ten years old.
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Charles Goodnight, Jr. was born in 1836 on the farm now owned by Willis Wolf, Jr. He grew up with three other siblings and was raised by his parents, Charlotte and Charles Goodnight, Sr. When he was only five, his father died of pneumonia.
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GOODNIGHT, CHARLES (1836-1929). Charles Goodnight, rancher, the fourth of five children of Charles and Charlotte (Collier) Goodnight, was born on March 5, 1836, on the family farm in Macoupin County, Illinois. ... His father died of pneumonia in 1841 when Charles was five, and shortly thereafter his mother married...
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The history of the chuck wagon in the American west ... Charles Goodnight is credited with inventing the chuck wagon. In 1866 he and his partner, Oliver Loving, made preparations to take a herd of 2,000 longhorn cattle from near fort Belknap in northern Texas, to Denver.
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The chuckwagon - a cowboy's portable kitchen wagon used on the cattle trails - was invented by Charles Goodnight in 1866 ... More on ; Charles Goodnight and the Chuckwagon...
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Charles Goodnight, born in 1836 in Macoupin County, Illinois, entered the cattle business on the northwest Texas frontier at the age of 20. He also served with the local militia in their long-running battle against Comanche raiders.
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