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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 />​<ref>{{cite web

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=

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>

https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00034/tsw-00034.html|title=JA Cattle Company: An Inventory of Its Records at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library|publisher=lib.utexas.edu|accessdate=September 20, 2019}}</ref>

 

==Palo Duro country==

==Palo Duro country==