In the years before oil dominated the Texas economy, farmers and ranchers made the state’s reputation through the hard days of tilling the soil and driving countless herds of cattle. Of all the ...

Col. Charles Goodnight's mansion on the prairie about an hour's drive southeast of Amarillo might not be what you would expect from a man who once controlled thousands of acres of the Texas Panhandle.

Charles Goodnight liked to point out he was born in 1836, the year the Republic of Texas was founded, and moved here in 1845, the year Texas joined the United States. A legendary rancher and ...

In the years before oil dominated the Texas economy, farmers and ranchers made the state’s reputation through the hard days of tilling the soil and driving countless herds of cattle. Of all the ...

One of the brightest gems of Texas history lies on the High Plains in between Claude and Amarillo, where a local cattleman stopped bison from going extinct more than a century ago. And now, after ...

Charles Goodnight forged the Goodnight-Loving Trail beyond Denver, along the South Platte River. It crossed at the site of Latham Station, a Weld County meeting house, stage stop, and post office.

The Goodnight-Loving Trail was the first cattle drive through hostile Indian Territory westward to eventually reach Cheyenne, Wyoming. Named for Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving, the trail formed ...

When Texas cattle baron Charles Goodnight settled in the Pueblo area in the late 1860s, Civil War scars still were fresh. Construction of railroads spanning the nation was under way and the United ...

One of our most important founders in the rugged Panhandle was reportedly the only woman on the vast JA Ranch, established by her husband, Charles Goodnight along with John Adair in 1877. Born Mary ...