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Character Bio

In his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove and its sequels, Larry McMurtry based the relationship between Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call on the relationship between Goodnight and Loving. The grave marker Call carves for one of the characters late in the novel is based on an actual gravestone Charles Goodnight had created, and the trek back to Texas at the end of the novel is based on Goodnight's return of Loving's body to Texas.There are other notable influences from Goodnight's life in the novel as well. All four novels include brief appearances by Goodnight as a character, and he plays his largest role in the final (chronological) volume of the series, Streets of Laredo. Goodnight also appears briefly in the prequel Dead Man's Walk and in a more prominent role in the sequel Streets of Laredo, where he and Call have become good friends. However, Goodnight's appearance as a character in Dead Man's Walk is historically inaccurate. The action of the novel is set during the Santa Fe Expedition of 1841.

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