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  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
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    …said he could do nothing without authority from the supreme government of Mexico…” A letter was dispatched to Mexico City but since a reply would take at least a month the “extradition” party returned to the U.S. Walter Vail, ca. 1890. ERF archives: A530-43 Walter Elected to the AT Legislature – October 1878 In October 1878 Walter was also elected to Arizona’s 10th Territorial Legislature as a representative from Pima County. He was thus required…

  • 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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    …vertisement. Courtesy of Chronicling America. Tucson’s First Long Distance Phone Call – 1911 Telephone operator, Gradye Drown, placed Tucson’s first long distance telephone call in June, 1911. It was a call “to Los Angeles, for cattleman Banning Vail. The call took several days to arrange and cost Vail $25. ‘We first called Red Rock, then Casa Grande, then Yuma, then El Centro and so on to Los Angeles,’ Drown said in an interview with The Arizona…

  • Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
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    …nments worked together to control an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Mexico. A quarantine line was established across the part of Mexico affected by the outbreak and U.S. personnel assisted with the vaccination of cattle to eradicate the disease. Austin Moss, a southern Arizona cowboy, described his work in remote areas of Jalisco. The vaccine had to be kept cold so they used popsicles “… to keep the vaccine cold. And then we’d go to the rea…

  • Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
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    …/1913] Henry Boice called the home “Fernbrook.” Frank and Henry Boice, New Mexico Military Institute, 1908. Courtesy of Martha Madani Henry G. and Frank Boice’s Education Henry G. and Frank Boice attended the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, NM for a year, and completed high school at Occidental Academy in Los Angeles, graduating with honors in 1911. [Richard Schaus, Hereford Tradition of Arizona’s Boices, 1959] Henry and Frank both major…

  • Empire Ranch is Purchased and the Hard Work Begins (August-December 1876)
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    …he 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 to east of the San Simon valley, near the New Mexican line, and were obliged to give up the chase without recovering any stock or punishing any Indians. They are much discouraged and if not afforded…

  • Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
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    …something should happen to Pancho while flying. Soon after Sherry became a flight instructor. She continued flying until 1968. Fred T. Boice and his sister Peggy Boice Rubel were pilots also. Screwworm Peerless ointment and collection kit. Courtesy of Mary Kasulatis Screwworm Eradication Program – 1965 In the 1960s the U.S. Department of Agriculture began a collaboration with U.S. ranchers and the Mexican government to eradicate screwworms. U.S. s…

  • Empire Land & Cattle Company, 1883-1887
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    …les – April 1886 In 1886 Geronimo’s warriors were crossing the border from Mexico again. It was to be the last of their raids before Geronimo’s final surrender in September 1886. The Vail’s were in Los Angeles when Mary E. Nickoll wrote to Margaret Vail [4/30/1886] about recent raids: “Dear friend, being as everything is in the greatest excitement over the Indians I will drop you a few lines thinking you and Mr. Vail would like to know that everyt…

  • Tour the Cienega Watershed
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    …ts in the watershed. Start by downloading the TravelStorys.Com App to your phone or other device. Open TravelStory 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…

  • Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
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    …the Arivaca Ranch about 60 miles south of Tucson have been sold to Morton Freedman of Chicago one of the developers of 1900-acre Diamond Bell Ranch 23 miles west of Tucson. In addition Freedman has options to buy another 1900 acres of the ranch from Boice’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry G Boice of Tucson.” [Tucson Citizen, 9/17/1971] Aerial photo of the new Western Slope Feeders feed lot, 1970s. Courtesy of Grant Boice More Business Expansion – 1971…