JA Cattle Company Records, 1813-1994 and undated

Adair, John George, 1823-1885

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Thompson, George, Jr.

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Ritchie, Cornelia Wadsworth

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Ritchie, Montie (Montgomery Harrison Wadsworth)

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JA Cattle Company

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The JA Ranch located in the Panhandle of Texas is the oldest privately owned cattle company. Its history can be traced as far back as 1876 when Charles Goodnight began his own ranch. The JA Ranch began with the partnership of Charles Goodnight and John G. Adair. After several years of managing the ranch, Goodnight took his part of the ranch and left the JA Ranch. Cornelia Ritchie Adair became sole owner of the ranch after the death of John Adair. She ran it until her death in 1921. ...

Ritchie, Jack (James Wadsworth), 1861-1924

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Goodnight, Charles, 1836-1929

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Charles Goodnight is best known as a cattleman and co-founder of the Goodnight-Loving Trail to bring cattle from Texas to market in New Mexico. However, Charles Goodnight and his wife, Mary Ann, played a pivotal role in saving the Great Southern Bison Herd from extinction. Separated from the Northern Herd by busy wagon trails and the railroad and slaughtered by hundreds of eager "buffalo hunters," by 1895 the Great Southern Herd, once numbering in the millions, was almost gone. Charles and Mary ...

Adair, Cornelia W. (Cornelia Wadsworth), 1839-1921

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Bivins, Andrew M.

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