The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 31, July 1927 - April, 1928 Page: 91
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A History of the J A Ranch
Coleman and Lee Dyer, with headquarters at Deep Lake, near
where Leslie, Texas, is now. In 1883, Judge Nelson and Colonel
T. S. Bugbee bought the Shoe Bar Ranch and Nelson continued
as manager of it until the nineties. He was also President of
the Panhandle Cattle Raisers Association from 1882 to 1885.
T. D. Hobart, present manager of the ranch, became manager
of the J A's in 1915. M. E. (Mitch) Bell worked on the J A
Ranch several years during the early eighties, and at the present
time owns a ranch, which he bought from the J A holdings. M. T.
(Doc) Howard also worked on the J A in the eighties and owns
a ranch today within the original J A holdings. Joe Horn, a
cattleman of Clarendon, worked on the F and J A Ranches sev-
eral years in the early eighties. Fain (Huck) Kent, son of J.
W. Kent, has lived on the ranch all of his life. Ernest Kent,
better known as (Tunnie), is also a son of J. W. Kent. He
started with the wagon at the age of seven years. Clinton Henry
came to the ranch in 1924 as cattle tally man and is bookkeeper
today. Jim Wilson came to the ranch about thirty years ago
and still works on it. Jimmie Moore has been working on the
ranch eighteen years. Honorable James Wadsworth, Jr., United
States Senator from New York, a nephew of the Adairs, was
manager of the J A Ranch from 1911 to 1915. Mrs. Rex Rog-
ers, the wife of a cattleman and wheat farmer, lives on the Rex
Rogers Ranch twelve miles east of Tulia, Texas, which was a
part of the old Tule Ranch.
When the writer began to gather material for this thesis and
began to ask these persons for interviews, they invariably asked,
"What are you trying to do ?" When I explained my purpose,
they then asked, "Are you going to put it down like we tell it ?"
One man expressed himself in this manner: "If you are going
to flower it up and make a pack of lies out of what I say, I do
not want to have anything to do with it." I assured him and
all the rest of these persons that it was my purpose to give the
facts just as they told them to me. In keeping faith with them,
I have attempted, in every instance, to give the data just as they
gave them to me, and wherever possible, I have let them tell the
facts in their own words.
Chapter V, "The Indian Scare of 1890," has nothing to do
with the history of the J A Ranch except in an indirect way.
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