Records, 1813-1994, 1990-1994.

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Records, 1813-1994, 1990-1994.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47830724

The JA Cattle Company Records contains a variety of materials detailing the history and operation of the ranch mostly during the 20th century. Items include personal and professional correspondence, financial material, legal material, land abstracts, survey calculations, bank statements, maps, architectural plans, literary productions, printed material, post office materials, and scrapbook materials.

205 linear feet.

Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7585435

Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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Ritchie, R. M. W. (Richard Morgan Wadsworth)

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Bivins, Andrew M.

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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 ...

Thompson, George, Jr.

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

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Birkbeck, Daisy Muriel Ritchie.

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Coke, Henry C.

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Ritchie, Elizabeth Barrell.

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Adair, John George, 1823-1885

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Wadsworth, James Wolcott, 1846-1926

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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 ranch. The JA Ranch began with the partnership of 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. Her only remaining son, J...

Ritchie, Sophia Harrison.

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Style, Gabrielle Muriel Ritchie Keiller.

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Word, W. G.

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Ritchie, James Wadsworth, 1861-1924.

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Hobart, T. D. (Timothy Dwight), 1855-1935.

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Ritchie, Montie (Montgomery Harrison Wadsworth)

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Bivins, Cornelia Ritchie.

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