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Descriptive Summary
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents
Index Terms
Administrative Information
Description of Series
Inventory
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A Guide to the Charles Goodnight Papers,
1882-1939
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Creator: |
Goodnight,
Charles |
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Title: |
Charles Goodnight
Papers |
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Dates: |
1882-1939 |
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Abstract |
Papers of Goodnight concern trail driving,
cattle raising, the John Charles Beales land grant and Rio Grande Colony, and
Indian depredation claims. |
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Extent: |
10 in. |
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Laguage: |
Materials
are written in English. |
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Repository: |
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin |
Charles Goodnight (1836-1929), trail
driver, pioneer cattleman, and partner in the JA Ranch in Palo Duro Canyon,
Texas.
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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.
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Subjects (Persons) |
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Beale, John Charles,
1804-1878 |
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Collins, George
R. |
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Goodnight, Charles,
1836-1929--Archives |
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Goodnight,
Corinne |
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Goodnight, Mary
Ann |
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Jones, Charles Jesse,
1844-1919 |
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Malone, Pat G. |
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Seymour, Edmund
C. |
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Sheek, John W. |
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Subjects (Organizations) |
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JA Ranch |
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Subjects |
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Bison,
American--Texas |
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Cattle--Breeding |
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Cattle drives |
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Cattle trails |
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Comanche Indians |
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Indians of North
America--Texas--Wars |
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Land grants--Texas |
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Land
settlement--Texas |
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Ranches--Texas |
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Places |
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Goodnight (Tex.) |
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Palo Duro Canyon
(Tex.) |
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Texas--History--To
1846 |
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Texas Panhandle
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Charles Goodnight Papers, 1882-1939,
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
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General correspondence, 1882-1930, 1939, and undated |
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Land: |
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Beales Grant correspondence, 1927-1928 and undated |
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Beales Grant documentation, 1882, 1889, and undated |
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List of Goodnight's deeds |
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Literary productions: |
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Charles Goodnight's autobiography [1927?] |
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Miscellaneous written by Charles Goodnight, undated |
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Miscellaneous concerning Mary Ann and Charles Goodnight,
undated |
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Miscellaneous, 1861, 1881, and 1917 |
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| 2R1 |
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Miscellaneous correspondence, transcripts (3 copies),
1916-1929 |
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Edmund Seymour, Charles Goodnight, et al. correspondence,
transcripts, 1917-1929 |
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Charles Goodnight articles, undated |
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Charles Goodnight vs. the United States and the Comanche
Tribe of Indians, 6 vols., 1892-1901 |
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| 3S111 |
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Photographs |
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Oversize newspaper and magazine clippings |
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