Letters 1906

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Letters 1906

The collection contains letters relating to a donation to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science by Charles Goodnight.

1 folder

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6402016

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Goodnight, Charles, 1836-1929

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Charles Goodnight is best known as a cattleman and co-founder of the Goodnight-Loving Trail to bring cattle from Texas to market in New Mexico. However, Charles Goodnight and his wife, Mary Ann, played a pivotal role in saving the Great Southern Bison Herd from extinction. Separated from the Northern Herd by busy wagon trails and the railroad and slaughtered by hundreds of eager "buffalo hunters," by 1895 the Great Southern Herd, once numbering in the millions, was almost gone. Charles and Mary ...

Denver Museum of Nature & Science

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The Earth Sciences Department at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science is one of the institution's oldest. It now includes the areas of paleontology and geology, which at one time were separate entities. Numerous individuals who worked in the department and its predecessors contributed to the archival record of its history contained in this collection. Philip Reinheimer was a preparator in the Department of Paleontology from 1919 to 1921, Chief Preparator from 1922 t...