Ninia Ritchie was raised on the Texas JA ranch by her father, the cowboys and their families, after her mother died when she was five. For this reason, Ninia knows the ranches better than anyone and has a special feeling for those with whom she works.
Like her great grandmother, Ninia takes special pride in the remuda and buys the studs and chooses the replacement fillies.
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Ninia gathers the JA's last Hereford cows in the West Plains pasture on a cold January day.
Today, Ninia lives at the Texas ranch, but spends a good deal of the summer at the Colorado ranch. During the winter, she can be found, feeding the cows in the morning and doing other ranch work in the afternoon.
Ninia, early in the morning in Colorado.
