The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #45656   Message #675752
Posted By: Lonesome EJ
25-Mar-02 - 03:03 AM
Thread Name: Origins:The Goodnight-Loving Trail (Utah Phillips)
Subject: RE: The midnight loving trail
Great link, Doc. I had heard that Lonesome Dove was basically a re-telling of the Goodnight-Loving story, but reading the history really bore it out. I've been to Ft Sumner New Mexico, and was aware of its connections with Billy the Kid nad the imprisonment of Navajo at Bosque Redondo, but was unaware of the Goodnight-Loving connection.