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The JA Ranch is located southeast of Amarillo, Texas in the Texas Panhandle. The main ranch house, now a museum devoted to Charles Goodnight, is located a short way south of United States Route 287. It is a two-story construction, its oldest portion a log cabin which predates the American Civil War. The main portion of the house, built ...
In 1868, Goodnight established Rock Canon Ranch, west of Pueblo, Colorado. [4] [6] To take advantage of available grass, timber, water, and game, Goodnight founded in 1876 what was to become the first Texas Panhandle ranch, the JA Ranch, in the Palo Duro Canyon. [7] [8] By 1885, the ranch covered 1,325,000 acres and held 100,000 head of cattle. [6]
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He purchased a 2,000-acre ranch west of Sherman in Grayson County in 1876. [3] Over the years, this ranch grew to be 10,300 acres. [ 3 ] By 1881, working for Glidden alongside William Henry Bush , [ 4 ] Sanborn established the Frying Pan Ranch near Bushland, Texas , spanning acres of land in Potter County and Randall County . [ 1 ]
The memorial statue "Dash for Cash" in front of the American Quarter Horse Association museum in Amarillo, Texas. The American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame and Museum was created by the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA), based in Amarillo, Texas. Ground breaking construction of the Hall of Fame Museum began in 1989. [1]
The house was built in 1904 by rancher David Nichols McBride, who bought the surrounding land in 1904, for $1.50 per acre. [1] The house is made of mortared dolomite, and has two rooms–a kitchen and bedroom, and an incomplete porch.
He proved himself worth breeding through ranch work on the ranch, before being used as the foundation of the King Ranch Quarter Horse linebreeding program. [2] He died in 1945, with his last foal crop being in 1943. [1] He was a sorrel stallion bred by George Clegg of Alice, Texas and sold by Clegg as a foal along with his dam for $125 to the ...
The Camarillo Ranch Foundation sponsors annual community events intended to educate the public about Camarillo's history, [29] and hosts over 150 private and public events annually. [30] The Camarillo Ranch House is a wedding venue with four different venues including the Front Lawn, the Red Barn, the East Garden, and the West Garden.