An exciting story of a Texas Ranger adventurer and immigration officer who became a symbol of his age while gambling with death in the wild frontier regions of Texas Arizona and Old and New Mexico. Charles Goodnight knew the West of Jim Bridger Kit Carson Dick Wooton St. Vrain and Lucien Maxwell. He ranged a country as vast as Bridger ranged. He rode with the boldness of Fremont guided by the craft of Carson. His vigorous zest for life enabled him to live intensely and amply and in this book by J. Evetts Haley himself no stranger to the West provides a fully readable and important western biography vividly told thrilling witty and completely authentic. Author: J. Evetts Haley Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Published: 09/15/1981 Pages: 504 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 1.46lbs Size: 9.32h x 6.09w x 1.06d ISBN: 9780806114538