Charles Goodnight, Cowman and Plainsman
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: October 1981
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780806114538
Subjects: Biography: general; Texas; General; Biography / Autobiography
First sentence: ONE day in the fall of 1849, a fine old Indian warrior named Caddo Jake was at the Goodnight home, where he regularly came for a cup of coffee, and then invariably tanked up on buttermilk, of which he was very fond.
Description: 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.