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Article: Cornelia Adair's journey to the JA: she would eventually run the Texas ranch founded by Charles Goodnight and her husband, John Adair. But her transformation from Eastern aristocrat into Western cattle baron began with her first trip west in 1874.(Biography)
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- Wild West
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- December 1, 2009
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Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie Adair, destined to own one of Texas' most famous ranches, described western Nebraska in a trip journal she kept in 1874: "Camped at riverside, traveled by compass, shooting antelope. On the prairie every evening, one seemed to have slept in the same spot where we had rested the evening before, so exactly alike were our camps on the Platte.... On each side, as far as one could see, the yellow treeless prairie, like a great ocean with yellow waves, stretched away without a landmark of any sort, not even a bush or shrub, only the short yellow buffalo grass." Cornelia was glad to be there, though; she and her husband, John, were on their first ...