Charles Goodnight letter, 1881.

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Charles Goodnight letter, 1881.

Letter from Texas rancher Charles Goodnight to cattleman George Reynolds dated August 20, 1881.

1 leaf ; 26 x 20 cm.

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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 ...

Reynolds, George M. (George Millar), 1900-

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