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(Peaked in 1883 with 1,335,000 acres in six counties and a herd of 100,000 cattle)}}

(Peaked in 1883 with 1,335,000 acres in six counties and a herd of 100,000 cattle)}}

[[Image:JA Ranchcookhouse.jpg|350px|right|thumb|Cookhouse at the JA Ranch]]

[[Image:JA Ranchcookhouse.jpg|400px|right|thumb|Cookhouse at the JA Ranch]]

'''The JA Ranch,''' founded jointly by [[John George Adair]] and Charles Goodnight (1836-1929), is the oldest privately owned [[cattle]] ranch in the Palo Duro Canyon section of the Texas Panhandle southeast of [[Amarillo]], [[Texas]]. At its peak size in 1883, the JA, still managed by descendants of the Adair family, encompassed some 1,335,000 acres of land in six counties and a herd of 100,000 cattle.   

'''The JA Ranch,''' founded jointly by [[John George Adair]] and Charles Goodnight (1836-1929), is the oldest privately owned [[cattle]] ranch in the Palo Duro Canyon section of the Texas Panhandle southeast of [[Amarillo]], [[Texas]]. At its peak size in 1883, the JA, still managed by descendants of the Adair family, encompassed some 1,335,000 acres of land in six counties and a herd of 100,000 cattle.