Editor’s This book has been excerpted from the following book of collected “Pioneer days in the Southwest from 1850 to 1879; thrilling descriptions of buffalo hunting, Indian fighting and massacres, cowboy life and home building, contributions by Charles Goodnight, Emanuel Dubbs, John A. Hart and others.” Guthrie, Okla., The State capital company, 1909. From inside the No history of pioneer days would be complete without the name of Charles Goodnight. While Mr. Goodnight has a state and national reputation, the people of the Panhandle of Texas feel that they are especially honored in owning him as a citizen, and he and his estimable wife had‘, and now hold a place in the hearts of old timers as well as later settlers, that would cause the people to condemn any writer who failed to give to them that mete of praise which they so richly deserve, and place their name at the head of the highly honored galaxy of heroes who contended with and finally overcame every obstacle and danger of a country entirely given over to savagery at the time of their advent. Charles Goodnight is perhaps more extensively known than any other western ranchman, cattle owner, and pioneer, or any man of the present day. A man who has done more to help to develop this great Panhandle country and its diversified industries than probably any other, except T. S. Bugbee, who was the second settler in the Panhandle, while Goodnight was the first. This pre-1923 publication has been converted from it original format for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the conversion.