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unusual facts about JA Ranch



Armstrong County, Texas

Tom Blasingame, the oldest cowboy in the history of the American West, lived in Armstrong County and worked for seventy-three years in ranching, mostly on the JA Ranch.

The JA Ranch encompassed over a million acres (4,000 kmĀ²), including Armstrong County and five adjoining counties.

Laura Vernon Hamner

In the early 1890s, while she assisted her father in his newspaper work in Claude, she met Charles Goodnight and his wife, Mary Ann, In 1935, six years after Goodnight's death, she wrote The No-Gun Man of Texas, a novel-ized biography of the legendary cattleman, former co-owner of the large JA Ranch.


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