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1	1	By: King of Hemphill, et al. H.C.R. No. 51
2	2	(Senate Sponsor - Seliger)
3	3	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2013;
4	4	May 6, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
5	5	Administration; May 15, 2013, reported favorably by the following
6	6	vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 15, 2013, sent to printer.)
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9	9	HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
10	10	WHEREAS, The names of certain individuals stand out boldly in
11	11	the history of the Lone Star State, and for more than a century, the
12	12	life of famed rancher Charles Goodnight has inspired generations of
13	13	Texans; and
14	14	WHEREAS, Born on March 5, 1836, to Charles and Charlotte
15	15	Goodnight in Macoupin County, Illinois, young Charles Goodnight
16	16	joined his family in 1845 on the 800-mile journey to Milam County,
17	17	Texas, where the boy arrived riding bareback on a white-faced mare
18	18	named Blaze; from an early age, he learned the virtue of hard work,
19	19	laboring as a farmhand, racing as a jockey, and hauling freight with
20	20	teams of oxen; and
21	21	WHEREAS, Mr. Goodnight entered into a partnership with his
22	22	stepbrother, John Wesley Sheek, in 1856 to raise 400 head of cattle
23	23	in the Brazos Valley; in the late 1850s, he met Oliver Loving, and
24	24	together the two young men drove a herd to the gold rush camps in
25	25	Colorado before the Civil War; during the 1860s, he worked as a
26	26	scout for the Texas Rangers, taking part in the Comanche wars and
27	27	fighting outlaws along the Colorado and Brazos Rivers; and
28	28	WHEREAS, After his service with the Rangers, Mr. Goodnight
29	29	returned to the cattle business, and in 1866, he, Mr. Loving, and 18
30	30	cowhands drove a herd from Fort Belknap, Texas, to Fort Sumner, New
31	31	Mexico, and the route they forged became known as the
32	32	Goodnight-Loving Trail, one of the most heavily trafficked cattle
33	33	trails in the Southwest; Charles Goodnight is also credited with
34	34	inventing the chuck wagon during that legendary drive; and
35	35	WHEREAS, In 1870, he married Mary Ann "Molly" Dyer, a
36	36	schoolteacher, and the couple settled in Colorado for several years
37	37	before returning to Texas; in 1876, he entered into a partnership
38	38	with John G. Adair to set up the JA Ranch along Palo Duro Canyon,
39	39	with Mr. Goodnight serving as resident manager and part owner of
40	40	the operation; over the next 11 years, he increased the ranch's herd
41	41	and expanded its range and helped establish law and order in the
42	42	Panhandle; he pioneered the use of many new techniques and
43	43	inventions, including artificial watering facilities, barbed wire
44	44	fences, and the development of Hereford bulls through
45	45	crossbreeding; he also created one of the first western
46	46	sidesaddles, for use by his wife; and
47	47	WHEREAS, From 1887 to 1926, Charles and Molly Goodnight lived
48	48	in a spacious, two-story ranch house on the Goodnight Ranch near the
49	49	Salt Fork of the Red River; when his wife became distressed at the
50	50	decline of the southern herd of native bison, Mr. Goodnight took up
51	51	their cause, breeding them on his ranch and shipping buffalo to
52	52	Yellowstone National Park and to zoos on the East Coast and in
53	53	Europe; he also raised other animals and performed agricultural
54	54	experiments with the encouragement of botanist Luther Burbank; and
55	55	WHEREAS, Molly Goodnight died in 1926, and Charles Goodnight
56	56	followed her three years later at the age of 93, and they are buried
57	57	together in the Goodnight Cemetery, not far from the ranch they
58	58	called home for nearly 40 years; the descendants of the Goodnights'
59	59	buffalo live on as the Official State Bison Herd of Texas at Caprock
60	60	Canyons State Park, and the legacy of Charles Goodnight, pioneer,
61	61	cattleman, and naturalist, will endure as long as the Lone Star
62	62	shines bright over Texas; now, therefore, be it
63	63	RESOLVED, That the 83rd Legislature of the State of Texas
64	64	hereby designate March 5 as Charles Goodnight Day; and, be it
65	65	further
66	66	RESOLVED, That in accordance with the provisions of Section
67	67	391.004(d), Government Code, this designation remains in effect
68	68	until the 10th anniversary of the date this resolution is passed.
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