Charles Goodnight ignited the cowboy culture that would go on to define the American southwest. His likeness is immortalized in stone and bronze across the state of Texas. He is known for transforming cattle drives from a hardscrabble frontier livelihood, into the biggest business in the American West. In 1955, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. However, before he became a Texas legend, Goodnight chose to live along the banks of the Arkansas River in southern Colorado. Goodnight first made his fortune driving cattle…
