While driving cattle to Colorado, Texas rancher Charles Goodnight caught sight of the American Buffalo. Taken with the animal and knowing it was disappearing from the plains, Goodnight developed a herd on his Texas ranch and spent the rest of his life marketing products from the ungulate. Though never successful, Goodnight tried to create a market for cattalo (crossbreed of cattle and buffalo), buffalo fiber, and buffalo salve. He names lives on in the Goodnight-Loving trail, stretching from the Texas to Denver, Colorado.
Charles Goodnight and His Cattalo Experiment
