Empire Ranch Foundation

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  • Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/

    …oberto (Junior) Rodriquez, Henry Boice and Frank (Pancho) Boice. Phi Gamma Delta‘s officers: Front row, Bob Boice, house manager; Bob Cooney, corresponding secretary. Back row, Bud Schirmer, president; Joe Mulrein, historian, and Tom Fridena, recording secretary. UA Yearbook, 1950 Bob Boice Wins Essay Contest – 1949 In his senior year at UA Bob Boice “won first prize in Arizona in a beef cattle essay contest sponsored by Swift and Company.” [Arizo…

  • Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/boice-family-ranching-history-1859-1928/

    …lt decisions: “Where to go with 20,000 cows?” “Moving their cattle off the reservation was a five-year job, not too unlike the job involved in shipping 25,000 head a year to North Dakota, as Henry S. Boice did for over a decade. As the steers on the San Carlos reservation came of age they were shipped off as before. The cow herd was moved off in lots over a long series of roundups and long drives.” Old Eureka Stage Station that served as the ranch…

  • 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/

    …876, Los Angeles, California Herbert Hislop and Walter Vail purchase stage tickets from Indian Wells (now Indio) California to Tucson Arizona. Hislop describes the celebrating underway on 4th of July eve. “They were letting off fireworks and firing anvils in the streets. The way they fire anvils is this, they bury one anvil in the ground, the bottom side uppermost and fill the little square hole with gunpowder, placing the other anvil on the top…

  • Docent Tour Reservation Form
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/visit/explore-empire-ranch-headquarters/docent-tour-reservation-form/

    …re required for tours. Please complete and submit the form below to make a reservation or request additional information about tours. Reservations must be made by 5 pm the Friday before the tour date. Docent Tour Reservation “*” indicates required fields Name* Date* MM slash DD slash YYYY Tours are held on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month, except for the 4th Saturday in December. Number attending the tour* Email address* Phone Special Reques…

  • Banning Vail, 1909-1929
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/banning-vail-1909-1929/

    …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…

  • Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/

    …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., Empire Ranch area plan but adde…

  • Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/

    …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…

  • Cowboy Festival
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/ranch-events/cowboy-festival/

    …gift certificates for hotel stays or golf play; restaurant gift certificates; instruments; weekend getaways; time spent with well-known artist; baskets filled with goodies; handcrafted items; books; children’s toys; vacation home for a week; professional services, tickets to an entertainment or sporting event; jewelry, edibles – the list goes on and on. Be a Festival Volunteer More than 200 volunteers are needed during the Cowboy Festival, for a m…

  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/

    …on horseback, I did not like to come alone as the Indians are all off the reservation in New Mexico.” Walter was looking forward to hunting buffalo and reported: “I have been very well since I left home with the exception of a little trouble with my left knee but as it don’t get any worse I think it will wear itself out.” Unfortunately, the knee did not improve and hampered and delayed him. He visited his cousin, Tracy Bolman in Kansas to recuper…

  • The Search for the Right Ranch (July 14-August 22, 1876)
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/the-search-for-the-right-ranch-july-14-august-22-1876/

    …(8/6/1876): “Mr. Clum, the Indian agent that has charge of the San Carlos reservation started last week for the East with 25 Apache Indians, he expects to visit all the large cities in the East where he will show the Indians to pay the expense of transportation and keeping them which is quite an undertaking. Clum is a very fine fellow and I hope he will not lose money by the speculation.” Shipping Empire Ranch cattle at Pantano, ca 1898. ERF arch…