Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman

Norman,Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. 13th Printing New Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6" x 9 1/2. 483 Pages Indexed. Copuright 1936 new edition by the University of Oklahoma Press 1949 Beautiful new condition. An exciting story of a Texas Ranger, adventurer, and immigration officer who became a symbol of his age while gambling with death in the wild frontier regions of Texas, Arizona, and Old and New Mexico. Charles Goodnight knew the West of Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Dick Wooton, St. Vrain, and Lucien Maxwell. He ranged a country as vast as Bridger ranged. He rode with the boldness of Fremont, guided by the craft of Carson. His vigorous zest for life enabled him to live intensely and amply, and in this book by J. Evetts Haley, himself no stranger to the West, provides a fully readable and important western biography, vividly told, thrilling, witty, and completely authentic.