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1	1	By: Seliger S.C.R. No. 10
2	2	(King of Hemphill)
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5	5	SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
6	6	WHEREAS, Accomplished Texans who serve as positive role
7	7	models for young people deserve special recognition, and Mary Ann
8	8	"Molly" Goodnight, Armstrong County pioneer and wife of Charles
9	9	Goodnight, embodied the strength and spirit that has made Texas an
10	10	enduring example to the rest of the country; and
11	11	WHEREAS, Molly Goodnight was born September 12, 1839, in
12	12	Madison County, Tennessee; she moved with her family to Fort
13	13	Belknap, Texas, in 1854; after the death of her parents, she worked
14	14	as a schoolteacher and took care of her five brothers; and
15	15	WHEREAS, She met Charles Goodnight in the mid-1860s, and they
16	16	married in 1870; the couple settled in Pueblo, Colorado, where
17	17	Charles had already established a ranch; drought and the Panic of
18	18	1873 caused the family to return to Texas, where Charles received
19	19	backing from Irish investor John George Adair, who became his
20	20	partner; and
21	21	WHEREAS, The Goodnights founded a ranch in the Texas
22	22	Panhandle based in Palo Duro Canyon; Molly became doctor, nurse,
23	23	spiritual comforter, sister, and mother to the ranch hands who
24	24	worked there, but her most important role was wife and helpmate to
25	25	the most famous rancher on the High Plains; and
26	26	WHEREAS, She became interested in the plight of the baby
27	27	bison left behind by the commercial hunters who had ravaged the
28	28	great bison herds that roamed the Plains; recognizing that the
29	29	extinction of the bison was imminent, she encouraged her husband to
30	30	establish the Goodnight bison herd, which has since become the
31	31	Official State Bison Herd of Texas and is now located at Caprock
32	32	Canyons State Park; and
33	33	WHEREAS, Known as the Mother of the Panhandle of Texas, Molly
34	34	helped establish Goodnight College, and the town of Goodnight is
35	35	named in honor of her and her husband; Molly died in 1926, and her
36	36	headstone reads "Mary Ann Dyer Goodnight, One who spent her whole
37	37	life in the service of others"; she is truly deserving of this
38	38	signal honor for her pioneering work alongside her husband and her
39	39	visionary efforts to save the bison; now, therefore, be it
40	40	RESOLVED, That the 83rd Legislature of the State of Texas
41	41	hereby designate September 12 of each year from 2013 through 2022 as
42	42	Mary Ann "Molly" Goodnight Day in honor of her work in saving the
43	43	herd of Texas Plains bison that is now the Official State Bison Herd
44	44	of Texas; and, be it further
45	45	RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be prepared in honor
46	46	of the life and legacy of Mary Ann "Molly" Goodnight.