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  • Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
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    …urces, May 2007, p. 4 The Empire Ranch Makes Great Reading, Feb 2007, p. 3 New: Index to Newsletters, Nov 2005, p. 4 Natural Resources Tour LCNCA and the Cienega Watershed, June 2023, p. 3 Celebrating 20 Years of Shared Conservation Stewardship, December 2020, p. 1 Healing Rains, Sep 2017, p. 3 Sawmill Fire Scorches Las Cienegas Area, June 2017, p. 1 Christmas Snow Blankets the Empire Ranch, Mar 2017, p.1 Cottonwoods, more than just a backdrop, Ju…

  • Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
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    …he celebrated so-called “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 raid…

  • Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
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    …n horseback, late 1930s. ERF archives: B350-26a Women in Ranching – 1937 A newspaper article about the American National Livestock Association convention in Texas noted: “Mrs. Mary Boice, wife of Frank Boice, who is president of the Arizona Cattle Growers Association, and Miss Elizabeth Bixby of Long Beach, Calif., daughter of Fred Bixby, past president of the national organization, are other feminine delegates who don’t believe ranching is work f…

  • Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
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    …red Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming and was released in 1957. New Ranch House, 2018. ERF archives: D606-424 “New Ranch House” is Built – 1956 Pancho and Sherry Boice completed construction of their home, located on a rise just north of the Empire Ranch House. The house was designed by Pancho and included three bedrooms, two baths, a large kitchen and dining room, and an office. Pancho and Sherry’s four children would grow up in this h…

  • The Partners Meet and Prepare to Travel to Arizona (June-July 4, 1876)
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    …s Lick House Hotel. Writing (6/23/1876) to his fiancée Margaret Russell in New Jersey Walter provides his first impressions of his new partner: “Hislop seems like a very pleasant fellow, he is decidedly English… it won’t take long to naturalize him I think.” Hislop’s impression of Walter was also positive: “I met Walter Vail my partner who is a very nice fellow and seems to be very sharp and quick, knowing what he is about and I think we shall get…

  • Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
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    …ted throughout the United States by GAC Properties of Arizona as part of a new sales promotion program… the tickets offer an opportunity for visitors to see the company’s Rio Rico development north of Nogales as well as its new project at Empire Ranch when it opens for land sales in early 1971.” [Arizona Daily Star, 6/5/1970] In September the P&Z Commission “The Pima County Planning and Zoning Commission yesterday approved the GAC Properties, Inc….

  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
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    …unting was good. The partners were debating which of them should travel to New Mexico to purchase bulls. Vail wrote (3/24/1877): “We expect to go to New Mexico for bulls pretty soon but have not decided which one of us will go yet, we are all trying to get one another to go as it will be a pretty hard trip and hard work too. Hislop and Harvey both want me to go east as they don’t care much about leaving a good bed. I have got now so that it don’t…

  • Banning Vail, 1909-1929
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    …anch is called the Santa Barbara and is just south of the Empire along the American line. It contains 100,000 acres with the Buena Vista Ranch which adjoins it. I knew Señor Mascarenas quite well in the early 1890s and have been on his ranch several times. Banning is only driving cows down there and leaving the big calves and steers at the Empire.” [Letter from Edward Vail to Charles Scribner, 12/10/1924]. Banning Vail on “Tortuga” in ranch orchar…

  • Vail & Harvey, 1879-1882
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    …lter married Margaret Newhall on June 15, 1881 at Holy Innocents Chapel in New Market, New Jersey. Six weeks after their marriage Walter headed back to Arizona – the plans were for Maggie to come later. Walter wrote to her from New Mexico: “I expect you will be surprised to hear from me from this place. There has been a fearful wash out on the Railroad and the company brought us to this place and intend to transfer us across the mountains in carri…

  • Empire Ranch is Purchased and the Hard Work Begins (August-December 1876)
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    …as the English Boys Outfit, despite the fact that Walter Vail hailed from New Jersey. Hislop and Vail only mention this new partner in passing in their letters. Hislop writes (10/22/1876): “At the time I am writing there is a company of soldiers on our ranch camping, in search of Indians. They are about 200 yds. from the house and I am all alone again, as my other two partners have gone to look at some corn fodder which we want for our horses dur…