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H.C.R. No. 51
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
1 WHEREAS, The names of certain individuals stand out boldly in
2 the history of the Lone Star State, and for more than a century, the
3 life of famed rancher Charles Goodnight has inspired generations of
4 Texans; and
5 WHEREAS, Born on March 5, 1836, to Charles and Charlotte
6 Goodnight in Macoupin County, Illinois, young Charles Goodnight
7 joined his family in 1845 on the 800-mile journey to Milam County,
8 Texas, where the boy arrived riding bareback on a white-faced mare
9 named Blaze; from an early age, he learned the virtue of hard work,
10 laboring as a farmhand, racing as a jockey, and hauling freight with
11 teams of oxen; and
12 WHEREAS, Mr. Goodnight entered into a partnership with ,his
13 stepbrother, John Wesley Sheek, in 1856 to raise 400 head of cattle
14 in the Brazos Valley; in the late 1850s, he met Oliver Loving, and
15 together the two young men drove a herd to the gold rush camps in
16 Colorado before the Civil War; during the 1860s, he worked as a
17 scout for the Texas Rangers, taking part in the Comanche wars and
18 fighting outlaws along the Colorado and Brazos Rivers; and
1.9 WHEREAS, After his service with the Rangers, Mr. Goodnight
20 returned to the cattle business, and in 1866, he, Mr. Loving, and 18
21 cowhands drove a herd from Fort Belknap, Texas, to Fort Sumner,.New
22 Mexico, and the route they forged became known as the
23 Goodnight-Loving Trail, one of the most heavily trafficked cattle
24 trails in the Southwest; Charles Goodnight is also credited with
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. 83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 51, legislative document, June 14, 2013; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth439220/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.