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A few months later, Montgomery Ritchie, who had fought earlier in the war under [[General]] [[Ambrose Burnside]] in [[North Carolina]], died of an illness during the war.<ref name=PPHM/>
A few months later, Montgomery Ritchie, who had fought earlier in the war under [[General]] [[Ambrose Burnside]] in [[North Carolina]], died of an illness during the war.<ref name=PPHM/>
Widowed Cornelia Ritchie took her two sons, Arthur Ritchie and James Wadsworth "Jack" Ritchie (1861–1924), to [[Europe]] for their [[education]]. There she met and married in 1867 the wealthy landowner John Adair. The Adairs moved to [[New York City]], where Adair had established a brokerage office. His uneasy temperament led the family west in search of what [[Benjamin Franklin]] had once described as the "safety valve" of economic prosperity through westward expansion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jstor.org/pss/1891816|title=Was the West A Safety Valve for Labor?|author=Joseph Schafer|publisher=Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 24, No. 3 (December 1937)|page=299-314}}</ref> They reached Sidney, [[Nebraska]], and proceeded to [[Colorado]], where they joined Charles Goodnight's [[buffalo]] hunt. Goodnight told the Adairs about the Palo Duro country of [[Texas]], where cattle could thrive by grazing on the plains in the summer and spending the winter in the shelter of the canyon. The hunting trip ended in misfortune. Adair's gun accidentally discharged and killed his [[horse]], and Adair himself was injured in a fall.<ref name=JA />
Widowed Cornelia Ritchie took her two sons, Arthur Ritchie and James Wadsworth "Jack" Ritchie (1861–1924), to [[Europe]] for their [[education]]. There she met and married in 1867 the wealthy landowner John Adair. The Adairs moved to [[New York City]], where Adair had established a brokerage office. His uneasy temperament led the family west in search of what [[Benjamin Franklin]] had once described as the "safety valve" of economic prosperity through westward expansion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jstor.org/pss/1891816|title=Was the West A Safety Valve for Labor?|author=Joseph Schafer|publisher=Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 24, No. 3 (December 1937)|page=299-314}}</ref> They reached Sidney, [[Nebraska]], and proceeded to [[Colorado]], where they joined Charles Goodnight's [[buffalo]] hunt. Goodnight told the Adairs about the Palo Duro country of [[Texas]], where cattle could thrive by grazing on the plains in the summer and spending the winter in the shelter of the canyon. The hunting trip ended in misfortune. Adair's gun accidentally discharged and killed his [[horse]], and Adair himself was injured in a fall.<ref name=JA /><ref>{{cite web
url=https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00034/tsw-00034.html|title=JA Cattle Company: An Inventory of Its Records, 1813-1994 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library|publisher=lib.utexas.edu|accessdate=September 20, 2019}}</ref>
==Palo Duro country==
==Palo Duro country==
In 1887, Goodnight withdrew from the arrangement and limited his ranching activities. Falling beef prices, the arrival of farmers to the canyon, the decline of the open range, and the arrival of the Fort Worth and Denver Railway were obstacles to continued large-scale ranching. In the dissolution, Goodnight acquired the 140,000-acre Quitaque Ranch in Briscoe County with 20,000 head of cattle and remained manager of the JA for another year.<ref name=hbook/>
In 1887, Goodnight withdrew from the arrangement and limited his ranching activities. Falling beef prices, the arrival of farmers to the canyon, the decline of the open range, and the arrival of the Fort Worth and Denver Railway were obstacles to continued large-scale ranching. In the dissolution, Goodnight acquired the 140,000-acre Quitaque Ranch in Briscoe County with 20,000 head of cattle and remained manager of the JA for another year.<ref name=hbook/>
==Later ranch managers==
==Later ranch managers==
In 1888, Cornelia Adair named John Edward Farrington as manager though Goodnight had specifically trained Henry Webster Taylor for the position.. Jack Ritchie, Mrs. Adair's son by her first marriage, served briefly as foreman of the JA’s steer division in Tule Canyon before he returned to New York City to handle the purchase of JA horses for the police department.<ref name=PPHM/>
In 1888, Cornelia Adair named John Edward Farrington as manager though Goodnight had specifically trained Henry Webster Taylor for the position.. Jack Ritchie, Mrs. Adair's son by her first marriage, served briefly as foreman of the JA’s steer division in Tule Canyon before he returned to New York City to handle the purchase of JA horses for the police department.<ref name=PPHM/>
*Pauline D. and R. L. Robertson, ''Cowman's Country: Fifty Frontier Ranches in the Texas Panhandle, 1876-1887'' (Amarillo: Paramount, 1981).
*Pauline D. and R. L. Robertson, ''Cowman's Country: Fifty Frontier Ranches in the Texas Panhandle, 1876-1887'' (Amarillo: Paramount, 1981).
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