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  • Banning Vail, 1909-1929
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    …the call went through.” [Arizona Daily Star, 6/19/1986] Banning Vail at age 17, 1906. ERF archives, A530-45. William Banning Vail Becomes Manager – 1912 Banning Vail took over management of the Empire Ranch around 1912. He was 23 years old. In Los Angeles Banning had attended Throop Polytechnic Institute when the school’s mission was “to train Pasadena’s youth, from elementary school through college, for factory work in an industrial society.” The…

  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
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    …f Range 19S, Township 17E, southeast of the Empire Ranch located in Section 18. USGS 1905 Patagonia Quadrant map. Neighbor Perry M. Hilton – February 1878 Walter identifies the neighbor causing problems: “One of our neighbors [Perry] Hilton who has sheep does everything he can to annoy us. Harvey and Hislop had trouble with him while I was away and he does not leave a stone unturned to annoy us, he pretends to think a great deal of me but I well k…

  • Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
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    …Margaret’s children, William Banning Vail, was born in Los Angeles on April 13, 1889. He used his middle name, Banning, and was named after Walter Vail’s good friend, William Banning, whose family owned Catalina Island from 1892-1919. Southern Pacific Railroad engine and crew, circa 1910. Courtesy of Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block. Southern Pacific Railroad Announces Rate Increase – 1889 As overstocking increased in the late l880s, Vail a…

  • Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
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    …nd Miriam Boice’s second child, Robert Grantham Boice, was born on February 10, 1953. He was known as Grant. Pancho and Sherry Boice’s third child, Sherry Bailey Boice, was born on December 15, 1953. Norman Hinman on horseback in California, 1950. ERF archives: B406-105 Norman Hinman – 1953 Norman Hinman worked as a cowhand for the Boice family for four months (May-August) in 1953. He had finished one year of college in California when he decided…

  • Tour the Cienega Watershed
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    …avelStory and select “Tour the Cienega Watershed” to save the tour on your phone. Once you’ve download the app and the tour, no Internet access is needed. The tour includes 21 podcast-style stories that will automatically play at the appropriate location using your phone’s GPS. The route loop includes the Gabe Zimmerman Trailhead (in Vail), Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, the Empire Ranch Headquarters, wildlife viewing and many other feat…

  • Hours, Map & Directions
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    …e a special recreation permit. Permits are generally required if the group number is over 29, or if the activity needs BLM oversight or will have an impact to public lands and people. Click here for more detailed information about BLM permits. While often providing serenity and quiet, several times during the year special events are hosted by the Empire Ranch Foundation including a Fall Cowboy Festival, Horse Trail Rides, western movies, and educa…

  • The Search for the Right Ranch (July 14-August 22, 1876)
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    …had a regular feast.” Stone Avenue, Tucson, 1880. Source: Wikipedia August 1, 1876 – Back to Tucson Hislop writes (8/7/1876): “We returned to Tucson from the ranch, 52 miles, getting at our destination by sundown. Here we had a comfortable bed, having laid on the ground in a blanket since July 21st, pretty rough I can tell you. Here we rested a day or two and tried to deal with a man for his ranch, but with no success, as he wanted just double wh…

  • Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
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    …ire ranching operations after the death of his father, Pancho. Anamax logo, 1970s Anamax Purchases Empire Ranch From GAC – 1974 “The purchase price of the Empire Ranch, sold nearly three weeks ago to the Anamax Mining Corp., was $12,808,000, according to a deed filed this week with the County Recorder’s Office. The ranch, of which 47,000 acres remain intact, dates back to the days of Spanish colonialism. GAC Properties of Arizona, Inc., the seller…

  • Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
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    …oice was born on July 25, 1900, and Charles Gudgell Boice was born on April 1, 1902. H.S. Boice Cattle Company Stock Certificate. H.S. Boice Company – 1897 In 1897 the Boice-Berry Company ceased operations and Henry Boice established the H.S. Boice Cattle Company. In 1898 he purchased the Point of Rock Ranch from the Beatty Brothers. The ranch was located along the Cimarron River in Kansas and Oklahoma. [Topeka State Journal, 3/1/1898]. The Boice…

  • Empire Ranch is Purchased and the Hard Work Begins (August-December 1876)
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    …Mustang Mountains in the background, 1880s. ERF archives: A530-08 September 1-9, 1876 – Empire Ranch Expansion Begins Hislop writes (9/23/1876): “We have got another ranch now and 620 sheep on it, we bought the man that owned them out. He was ill with fever and got disgusted so let us have them cheap. We gave him 4/-a head, that is cheap enough and they come in very handy to us as meat and when we can get 50 lbs. of meat for 4/-it is not so bad. I…