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- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…roe, hosted by the USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database. Gathering the Cattle in the Brush – February 1890 At first we did not make much progress in gathering those steers. The brush was so thick we could not get through it on horseback. It was screw-bean, which does not grow high but the limbs are long and dropping on the ground and lying there between them arrow weed was as thick as hair on a dog and higher than a man’s head. We found that we could run som…
- Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/about/newsletter/article-topic-index/…ook, Empire Ranch, Nov 2012, p. 3 The Empire’s Saddle Rack, Feb 2012, p. 4 News of Old–Fat Sheriff Outruns Two Fleet Cowboys, Aug 2011, p.2 We’ve Gone Digital!, May 2011, p. 4 May We Introduce… Mrs. John Harvey, Aug 2010, p.4 Mesquite Control–Then and Now, May 2010, p.4 Oral History Program, Feb 2010, p.4 Empire Ranch Windmills, Aug 2009, p. 2 Empire Ranch Historical Documents Now Online, Feb 2009, p. 4 Foundation Receives Its First Endowment, Aug…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…the house manager for the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Peggy Boice and Jack Rubel, 1949. Courtesy of Lynn Rubel Peggy Boice Marries John Rubel – 1949 Margaret Ann “Peggy” Boice married John “Jack” Rubel in the Trinity Presbyterian Church in Tucson on November 9, 1949. Jack came to the University of Arizona in 1942 and graduated in 1948 after taking a few years off to serve in the Navy during WWII. Jack was from southern California and was a fullbac…
- Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/boice-family-ranching-history-1859-1928/…879 when the Texas Legislature appropriated three million acres of land to finance a new state Capitol building. The land was to be sold over time to finance the Capitol building and the ranch was established to use the land until it was sold. In 1905, when Henry Boice became the manager, the land holdings were being sold in smaller plots to farmers. Boice managed the ranch until the last of its cattle were sold in 1912. During his tenure he worke…
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- 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/…hunger and arrived in Tucson at 5:30, once more getting into the civilized world. Walter Vail’s fiancée, Margaret Russell Newhall, ca 1884. Source: ERF archives, A530-80 July 18, 1876 – Vail’s Impression of Fish’s Ranch Vail writes to his fiancée Maggie (7/18/1876): I have just returned from a ranch fifty miles south of Tucson which is called the Fish ranch as it belongs to a Mr. Fish, it is quite a pretty place it consists mostly of rolling hills…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…great deal of me but I well know he would steal the last cent I had in the world. He has commenced to run his sheep up on our range for no other reason than to scatter our cattle, but I intend to stay with him. As they say in A. T. and as long as I am here, I don’t intend to be imposed on if I can help it. I am in hopes of getting ahold of enough property inside of 6 months to keep him off our range.” Walter also confirms Hislop’s statement about…
- Banning Vail, 1909-1929
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/banning-vail-1909-1929/…e at the ranch at that moment. Dad was down at the farm with his car. The truck was on a run to Sonoita or something. There wasn’t anything to go down and get my father, or to get me into Tucson. And she finally told Apache Joe to hitch up the chuck wagon! Well about that time the truck driver got back, so he went on down to the farm and let Dad know. And of course then they took me on into Tucson.” [Dusty Vail Ingram oral history, 1993] Children…
- Reading List
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/articles-and-links/…ing sought. Ranching Heritage of the Boice Family. Empire Ranch Foundation News. Feb 2006, 7(1):4. Reflections from Sixty Years Ago… by Gerald Korte. Empire Ranch Foundation News. May 2005, 6(2):3. Donaldson Family Desert Empire by Tammy LeRoy. Western Horseman 71(7):38-44, July 2006. Permission to post being sought. Donaldsons ranch with public looking over their shoulders by Colleen Schreiber. Livestock Weekly. Online Edition, April 18, 2002 Pro…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…GAC’s plans this week and expect to be completed in about two weeks. As of today, Jim Scanlan Is replacing Bartholomew. There has been no decision yet on when this construction will begin or when lot sales will begin.” [Arizona Daily Star, 9/1/1972] Steve and Annie Boice, 1972. ERF archives: B375-06 Steve Boice and Annie Helmericks Marry – 1972 While Gulf American Corporation proceeding with the permitting process for their planned development of…