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  • Video Gallery
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    Arizona’s Empire Ranch: A Prominent Past and a Promising Future, 2024 Exploring the County Line: Empire Ranch Historic Empire Ranch: A Virtual Tour Historic Empire Ranch: We’ll Be Back Empire Ranch – Cinema History, 2019 A Celebration of Western Culture at the Empire Ranch (2012) Video about Walter L. Vail, shown at his induction into the Hall of Great Westerners, 4/14/2018 Empire Ranch Drone Video by Pete Sterling (4/23/2018) Storyteller Glenda…

  • Empire Ranch is Purchased and the Hard Work Begins (August-December 1876)
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    …nd 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 think we shall sell them soon for 9/-apiece so if we do, it will not be a bad trade. One day when I was baking my bread I had left the kitchen for a moment to do something and when I returned I caught a snake under the stove, it frightened me rather at first…

  • Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
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    …on Garden Club – 1941 With a residence in Tucson, Mary Boice was able to become an active member of the Tucson Garden Club. She combined her love of gardening and photography and began presenting slide shows at club meetings. “Mrs. Frank Boice will show colored slides of flowers and other flowering plants. Of special Interest will be the cactus flowers showing the flowers in detail.” [Arizona Daily Star, 4/13/1941] “From 1935 to 1946 meetings [of…

  • The Search for the Right Ranch (July 14-August 22, 1876)
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    …oisonous, and they told me there were, so you can imagine I slept none too comfortable in my blanket that night.” Howling wolf. Source: Wikimedia Commons July 22, 1876 – A Long Rainy Night Hislop writes (8/7/1876): “Left the Rincon at 2 p.m. for Fish’s ranch, a distance of 30 miles across the mountains and a rough way it was. There being no road we had to guide ourselves by a compass and managed to lose our way even with this. We travelled till su…

  • The Partners Meet and Prepare to Travel to Arizona (June-July 4, 1876)
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    …ited Woodward’s Gardens in the Mission District of San Francisco. It was a combination zoo, museum and amusement park. Nathan and Anna Walker Vail Introducing Nathan and Anna Vail Nathan Randolph Vail (1825-1888) was Walter’s uncle, a younger brother of Walter’s father Mahlon. Early in his life he worked on a whaler and became a remarkable investor and developer. He met Herbert Hislop in London where Nathan was helping to install a street car syst…

  • Reading List
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    …. Vail. Sonoita, AZ: Empire Ranch Foundation, 2016. [Available from Amazon.com] The Empire Ranch and Walter L. Vail by John J. Wooley and Laurel Wilkening. The Copper State Journal 2002; 37 (4): 12-17. Permission to post being sought. Empire Ranch v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 1890. Empire Ranch Foundation News. May 2004, 5(2):3-4. The English Boys’ Outfit, Part 1 by Sinclair Browning. Empire Ranch Foundation News. Aug 2004, 5(3):5-6. The English…

  • Explore Empire Ranch Headquarters
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    Empire Ranch Headquarters features ten buildings/structures built between 1870 and mid-20th century. The centerpiece is the Empire Ranch House, is a 29-room adobe and wood frame building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This website contains more information about the History of the Ranch, and its Building & Structures. Most of the rooms of the Empire Ranch House are wheelchair accessible through the breezeway (zaguán) entranc…

  • Tour the Cienega Watershed
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/2023/04/tour-the-cienega-watershed/

    …nservation efforts 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 Trailhea…

  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
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    …hard up just at the present time. but I don’t think we have any reason to complain of our losses as there have been so many that have met with heavy losses on account of the heavy rains we have had of late but we ought not to complain as it has given us grass for a year.” Ad for Tracy Bolman’s dry good store. Netawaka Reporter, 9/15/1899 Hoping Ned Will Join the Partnership – August 1878 Walter also expresses his hope that his brother Ned would c…

  • Agents of Discovery
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    …device at the Apple App Store, Google Play or visit www.AgentsofDiscovery.com. After downloading the app, click on the Missions button and select the ones you want to play. Preload the missions and head out to the Historic Empire Ranch to start completing your challenges! Agents of Discovery missions are available for sites in parks, forests, recreation areas, and museums around the country, including other nearby BLM sites: the San Pedro House,…