MY DIARY. AUGUST 30TH TO NOVEMBER 5TH, 1874. by Adair, Cornelia - 1965 (1918)

Austin: U.T.P., 1965 (1918). 1st of this new edition. Hardcover. GOOD IN GOOD DJ. Malcolm Thurgood. Introduction by Montague K. Brown, 125pp., photos, dj, EX-LIBRARY, clean and tight.

The Adair's founded the JA Ranch, Palo Duro Canyon of which Brown was Assistant Manager. She later bought out the Goodnights and managed the 1/2 million acre ranch. The original 1918 is a rare piece of Western Americana first published in England. A New York aristocrat, she and her second husband John Adair (Englishman) went on a buffalo hunt (1874).... Along with Charles and Molly Ann Goodnight, they founded first Texas Panhandle Ranch, JA Ranch, Palo Duro Canyon (1877). As widow she bought out the Goodnights, managing the 1/2 million acre ranch.” HERD 7. HOWES A37.