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- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…for many years has been one of the leading sheep and cattle ranges in the west. Vail & Vickers will stock the island to its full capacity.” [The Independent, Santa Barbara, CA, 6/22/1901] Carroll Gates chose not to participate in this investment. Section of 1905 USGS topographic map of Patagonia sector. Crittenden Land & Cattle Company Purchased – September 1901 Vail, Gates, and Oscar Ashburn purchased the Crittenden Land and Cattle Company on Se…
- Banning Vail, 1909-1929
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/banning-vail-1909-1929/…mpire Ranch in 1929 and moved to Los Angeles. He continued to work for the various Vail Company California ranches until his death at the young age of 46 in 1936. Laura and the children had relocated to Los Angeles in 1927. Dusty’s reaction to the sale of the ranch was: “I guess disbelief more than anything else. I just couldn’t understand why… why it would be sold or anything and never did have a real answer to it. I presume it was that it was ec…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…were prompted by its aggressive marketing efforts including: ”Millions of vacation “tickets” to the Tucson-Nogales area are being distributed 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…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…st places we’d only have one or two drops to get 1500, 2000 head of cattle vaccinated. So we vaccinated them with 5cc under the skin. We had to rope them and we’d just dig six holes and put a snubbing pole, and then rope them and tie them up to that snubbing post and put a couple of Mexicans on their tail to hold them while we vaccinated them. And that’s how we started vaccinating. And then later on we showed them how to build chutes.” [Austin Mos…
- The Partners Meet and Prepare to Travel to Arizona (June-July 4, 1876)
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/the-partners-meet-and-prepare-to-travel-to-arizona-june-july-4-1876/…age 30, ca. 1882 Vail family home in Plainfield, NJ Introducing Walter L. Vail Walter Vail left the family home in Plainfield, New Jersey in mid-1875 to make his fortune in the American West. His first stop was Virginia City, Nevada where he worked as a time keeper for a mine. On November 11, 1875 he wrote of his plans to go into the sheep business in Arizona: “I have heard so many different reports that I have decided to go and examine for mysel…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…of the Indians the next morning into the mountains but found that they outnumbered us and had every advantage in the world over our party, so we concluded to give up the chase. The Indians after taking our horses from the San Pedro they came right over to this part of the country and took horses from all the ranches except ours they only killed three men in our neighborhood though it is reported that there where a good many killed along the Mexic…
- 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/…asant than right in town.” The next week the Citizen reported (9/2/1876): “Various opinions prevail as to the comparative success of the Feast of St. Augustine, now in progress. The feast will be apt to continue till tomorrow evening – perhaps longer. On Thursday evening there was a very interesting balloon ascension. Everything goes on peaceably and orderly.” View of Empire Ranch from northwest, Mustang Mountains in the background, 1880s. ERF arc…
- Buildings & Structures
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/buildings-and-structures/…rra lived in the house starting in 1927, with his wife and granddaughter, Eva Ferra Jimenez. Eva recalled that others lived there before her grandparents. The house did not exist in ca. 1885 photographs, but it was there by 1920. Huachuca House/Visitor Contact Station This small, stuccoed, front gabled house with standing seam metal roof was originally constructed on Fort Huachuca as officer housing. It was moved to the Empire Ranch as a home for…
- Tour the Cienega Watershed
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/2023/04/tour-the-cienega-watershed/…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 features along Hwy. 83 ending (or beginning) in Sonoita. And you don’t even have to drive through the watershed to enjoy the tour! You can download the tour to your computer or tablet, listen to each of the site descriptions, and view photos of the sites wherever y…
- Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/frank-mary-boice-family-ownership-1951-1969/…er wages for the hired men on horseback.” “Henry Boice who operates the Arivaca Ranch in southwestern Pima County said yesterday that It is becoming difficult to replace old cowboys when the time comes to hang up their saddles. ‘Real cowboys are scarce,’ he said. ‘Most of those available couldn’t sit on the side of a hill and watch a good cowboy work.’” [Tucson Citizen, 6/19/1958] Jennifer Boice, 1962. ERF archives: B111-01a Jennifer Lynn Boice is…