urn:taro:utexas.cah.00423 A Guide to the Charles Goodnight Papers, 1882-1939 June 2005Encoded in XMetal 3 by Evan Hocker according to instructions in TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. Descriptive Summary Goodnight, Charles Charles Goodnight Papers 1882-1939 Papers of Goodnight concern trail driving, cattle raising, the John Charles Beales land grant and Rio Grande Colony, and Indian depredation claims.Materials are written in English. 10 in. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Scope and Contents

Papers of Goodnight concern trail driving, cattle raising, the John Charles Beales land grant and Rio Grande Colony and include materials on Goodnight's Indian depredation claims and narratives by Goodnight and others concerning pioneer days.

Correspondence, literary productions, court records and legal documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, organized by form of material, arranged by topic and/or chronologically.

 Biographical Note

Charles Goodnight (1836-1929), trail driver, pioneer cattleman, and partner in the JA Ranch in Palo Duro Canyon, Texas.

 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Beale, John Charles, 1804-1878 Collins, George R. Goodnight, Charles, 1836-1929--Archives Goodnight, Corinne Goodnight, Mary Ann Jones, Charles Jesse, 1844-1919 Malone, Pat G. Seymour, Edmund C. Sheek, John W. Subjects (Organizations) JA Ranch Subjects Bison, American--Texas Cattle--Breeding Cattle drives Cattle trails Comanche Indians Indians of North America--Texas--Wars Land grants--Texas Land settlement--Texas Ranches--Texas Places Goodnight (Tex.) Palo Duro Canyon (Tex.) Texas--History--To 1846 Texas Panhandle (Tex.) Preferred Citation

Charles Goodnight Papers, 1882-1939, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory 2Q74 General correspondence, 1882-1930, 1939, and undated 2Q74 Land: 2Q74 Beales Grant correspondence, 1927-1928 and undated 2Q74 Beales Grant documentation, 1882, 1889, and undated 2Q74 List of Goodnight's deeds 2Q74 Literary productions: 2Q74 Charles Goodnight's autobiography [1927?] 2Q74 Miscellaneous written by Charles Goodnight, undated 2Q74 Miscellaneous concerning Mary Ann and Charles Goodnight, undated 2Q74 Miscellaneous, 1861, 1881, and 1917 2R1 Miscellaneous correspondence, transcripts (3 copies), 1916-1929 2R1 Edmund Seymour, Charles Goodnight, et al. correspondence, transcripts, 1917-1929 2R1 Charles Goodnight articles, undated 2R2 Charles Goodnight vs. the United States and the Comanche Tribe of Indians, 6 vols., 1892-1901 3S111 Photographs 3S167 Oversize newspaper and magazine clippings