Talk:Charles Goodnight

message: "Wives"
In the "personal life" section it only mentions him being married to Molly but then goes on to say "had his wives write letters". So was he married several times? If so that should be mentioned and if not this grammatical error should be corrected.
“Football”
Why is the word “football” found twice in this article? I have never edited on Wikipedia; is this word inserted as vandalism?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mirzchua (talk • contribs) 05:31, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

message: The article currently states that Goodnight joined the "Apostolic Church, Christian Conventions"—which brings up the questions: which was it, and what is the source for this information? I've inserted a request for a citation in the article.  • Astynax talk 17:12, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've clarified and supplied a reference to the sect which he joined.  • Astynax talk 21:21, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Religious affiliation

message: In my continuing (though erratic) research on Western history, I recently read The Cowboys, one of TIME-LIFE's "The Old West" books. The author (William H Forbis), a supposed expert on Western history, states that Goodnight was morally responsible for murder. On page 62 we read: "Goodnight was no better than the rest. Once when his wife expressed shock at some vigilante hangings ("I understand," she exclaimed, "they hanged them to a telegraph pole!") Charlie replied quietly, "Well, I don't think it hurt the telegraph pole." What she didn't know was that the victims had actually been strung up with Goodnight's full approval."
If this is true (though the book has text credits and a bibliography, there is no specific reference for this statement), it destroys the image of Goodnight as a gruff-but-kindly "spiritual" person. The author should look into this. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 15:52, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I would think that Time-Life would be enough of a reliable source, and certainly the view of the journalistic credentials of William H. Forbis make him a notable source (even if the National Cowboy Hall of Fame attacked the book as demeaning). Go ahead and insert the incident sourced to the The Cowboys and if there are other sources that dispute Forbis, we will hear about them.  • Astynax talk 19:59, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I've edited the article. This quote appears in at least two (apparently hagiographic) biographies of Goodnight, though without the spin Forbis puts on it (and without acknowledging the utter callousness of the remark). The lynching took place near a ranch where Goodnight and his wife were staying. It appears that, although Goodnight did not order the lynching, he knew of it and could have stopped it. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 14:33, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Was Goodnight a murderer?

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message: In the section on William T. Hagan's assessment of Goodnight, there is the mysterious sentence
"Goodnight's invention of the chuckwagon, the original version drawn by twenty oxen and carrying provisions for eighteen men for a 600-mile drive.[10]"  This sentence has no verb.  Furthermore the next sentence is in the same section but seems to have wandered off the topic of Hagen's assessment.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Felsenst (talk • contribs) 20:26, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomplete and possibly misattributed chuckwagon sentence 

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