Biography of one of the most important cattlemen of the American West
Like many other young ranch recruits, he was a “nester kid,” a poor farm boy to whom ranch life probably seemed glamorous when compared to the deadly monotony of life on a pioneer homestead. Certainly it was not the roughly thirty ...
When we reached the timber where the Indians had been camped , we had as captives the woman and a little Comanche boy , whom Ross picked up during the fight and set up on his horse behind him . The Indians could get more out of their ...
Charles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry—an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher.
His vigorous zest for life enabled him to live intensely and amply, and in this book by J. Evetts Haley, himself no stranger to the West, provides a fully readable and important western biography, vividly told, thrilling, witty, and ...
A biography of the Texas cowboy who was one of the first permanent settlers of the Panhandle, developed the chuck wagon and the sidesaddle, and experimented with plants and animals.
Charles Goodnight: A Man for All Ages
An exciting story of a Texas Ranger, adventurer, and immigration officer who became a symbol of his age while gambling with death in the wild frontier regions of Texas, Arizona,...