Pioneer Days in the Southwest from 1850 to 1879

"Charles Goodnight is perhaps more extensively known than any other western ranchman, cattle owner, and pioneer."

Our imagination has been fired by such pioneer names as Boone, Kenton and the Wetzels in the pioneer days in Kentucky, and later farther west on the great plains and the Rocky Mountains we have other historical names, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill (Cody), Payne and others, but very little has ever been written about the great southwest, where the Indian tribes of the prairie made thei...