A Promise Across The Plains
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The episode explores the life of Charles Goodnight, a significant figure in Texas Panhandle history, through the lens of a promise made to a dying friend.
Send us Fan Mail A man rides east through New Mexico with a coffin in his wagon, charcoal packed tight to fight decay, because his dying friend asked for one last mercy: don’t bury me in a foreign place. That single promise opens the door to the full, complicated life of Charles Goodnight, one of the most important names in Texas Panhandle history and a key figure of the American cattle frontier. We trace Goodnight’s rise from a hard-schooled teenager on the edge of the Brazos Bottoms to a T...
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