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  • Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/frank-mary-boice-family-ownership-1951-1969/

    …f the Association. (l-r) Bob and Grant Boice, 1960s. ERF archives: B203-09 American Society of Range Management – 1960 Bob Boice became chairman of the American Society of Range Management, Arizona Section. His involvement with ASRM began in 1958 when became secretary. That same year he was elected secretary of the Gila County Cattlegrowers Association. Google Earth view of the former Empire Ranch Airstrip, 2021. Airstrip at Empire Ranch – 1960s S…

  • Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
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    …archives: C500-004 Status of GAC Development Plans – 1971 In mid-1970 Gulf American Corporation (GAC) began submitting Empire Ranch development plans to the Pima County Planning and Zoning Commission. The first proposal called for “…58.266 residential units, which includes 1,000 acres of mobile home development. Planned density ranges from 3.4 homes per acre to one home per four acres. A total of 1,325 acres is for industrial use, which is east of…

  • Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
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    …ct ranching operations throughout the west. “Frank Boice, president of the American National Livestock association, said Tuesday as he left for Wyoming to confer with a selective service officials and draft board members there. Boice said cattlemen have been complaining that draft boards, in their patriotic zeal, have been depleting the range of cowboys In Wyoming, Montana and Colorado.” [Tucson Daily Citizen, 5/4/1942] U.S. food rationing poster….

  • Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
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    …lled “Camp Grant Massacre.” He with William Oury, eight Americans, quite a number of Mexicans and a large number of Papago Indians marched over to the mouth of Aravaipa Canyon, which was right in sight of the old Camp Grant but then occupied by American troops and nearly exterminated that band of Apaches. They killed all but the children whom they brought to Tucson as prisoners. The cause of this expedition was the constant raids of the Apaches ag…

  • Banning Vail, 1909-1929
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    …rove adaptable for polo playing. In addition, Banning Vail now has a large number of two-year-old colts in the pastures of the Empire ranch which within the next two year will develop into acceptable polo horses. There are about 20 or more of these colts which were bred by the Vail stallion a horse of strong thoroughbred blood. From an economic standpoint the breeding of polo horses in this section will be a factor of importance in ridding the ran…

  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
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    …I have had one or two scares and that is quite enough for me. We have about 800 head of cattle on the ranch, all cows, and Vail has just gone to New Mexico to buy about 40 good blooded bulls which he will bring here as soon as possible. I do not know how many calves we have at present but shall know by November, as then we shall brand and earmark them. From what I see riding round now, there are a good number. Our band of horses consists of 20 bro…

  • The Partners Meet and Prepare to Travel to Arizona (June-July 4, 1876)
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    …ime.” Los Angeles’ Thirty-Eighth Fire Company celebrates the centennial of American independence on July 4, 1876. Courtesy of the Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, USC Libraries. Source: KCET SoCal Fourth of July Celebrations of the Past 7/4/1876, Los Angeles, California Hislop recounts the 4th of July celebrations in Los Angeles. “At about 10 a.m. a grand procession was paraded through the streets to celebrate Indepe…

  • 2023 Cowboy Festival Program
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    …ache ATV Tours (guided ATV tours of SE AZ) AZWoodenFlagCo (handmade wooden American flags and wooden American flag crosses, wooden crosses, laser engraved slate stone drink coasters and leather wrapped flasks, wooden beer bottle openers, Native American and other jewelry) Besquare Bags and More (aprons, towels, turtle mops, burrito baby blankets) BlackJack Citrus Infusions (lemonade) The Candle Bunkhouse (hand-made & hand-poured soy candles, room…

  • Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
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    …31-35]. Initially the ranch was stocked with commercial Herefords from the reservations. By 1928 the purebred Hereford bulls were moved to the Eureka. Mary Boice photo of cattle at Rocky Point on the Onyx Ranch, ca. 1926. Courtesy of Martha Madani. Frank and Mary Move to the Onyx Ranch, California – 1924 In 1924 Frank and Mary Boice moved to California to run the leased Onyx Ranch in Kern County. “The ranch was stocked with yearlings coming off th…

  • Empire Ranch is Purchased and the Hard Work Begins (August-December 1876)
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/empire-ranch-is-purchased-and-the-hard-work-begins-august-december-1876/

    …horses and mules have been stolen by Apaches, from the people, and quite a number of cattle killed. The Apaches kill a beef when they are in want of beef, and take what they need at the time and let the balance remain to spoil or be eaten by wild beasts. The settlers to the number of twenty-five, recently followed the trail of the stock and thieves, thinking first it might lead to San Carlos, but it led directly to New Mexico, and they followed it…