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Born March 5, 1836, Charles Goodnight is possibly the best known
rancher in Texas. He is sometimes known as the "father of the Texas
Panhandle." After building his first temporary living quarters in
Palo Duro Canyon in Randall County in 1876, Goodnight built a
comfortable three-room ranch house farther to the southeast in
Armstrong County, where the canyon floor widened out for ten miles
or more. He also built corrals and a picket smokehouse at the site,
which he affectionately dubbed the Home Ranch.
Goodnight moved to Texas in 1846 with his mother and stepfather,
Hiram Daugherty. In 1856, he became a cowboy and served with the
local militia, fighting against Comanche raiders. A year later, in
1857, Goodnight joined the Texas Rangers. Goodnight is also known
for raising and leading a posse against the Comanche in 1860 that
located the Indian camp where Cynthia Ann Parker was living with her
husband, Peta Nocona, then guiding Texas Rangers to the camp,
leading to Cynthia Ann's recapture.
Goodnight died December 12, 1929 and is buried in the Goodnight
Cemetery in Goodnight Texas. . . . also see
Molly and Charles
Goodnight . . . for more like this please
see Texas Cowboy History
. . . for more like this please see
History of Texas Police
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