The Goodnight-Loving Trail (1866)

• Goodnight-Loving Trail


  1. Established by Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving

  2. To sell cattle directly to reservations and forts in the West
• Drove 2000 cattle to Fort Sumner

  1866
• The American Indians there were close to starvation because of poor government planning
• Sold 800 cattle


  For $12,000 (a much better price than they would get in Texas)
• Loving then sold the remaining 1200 to businessman John Iliff in Colorado
• Loving was killed by Comanche Indians

  1867
• Goodnight made a successful deal with John Iliff


  To transport cattle all the way to Wyoming on the Union Pacific Railroad