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  • Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
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    …access to a library. [Arizona Daily Star, 4/16/1933] The membership of the Book Club was limited to 17 and each year 17 books were chosen to circulate among the members for a year. The Book Circle continues today. Pancho and Bob Boice, ca.1933. ERF archives: B206-039a Private Tutor for Pancho and Bob – 1934 “Miss Eleanor Struthers, has accepted a position as private instructor for the children of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boice of the Empire ranch near S…

  • Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
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    …es now. I have two Rise Dike Hambletonians stallions. Both are on the herd book. I have a four-year old from Sultan raised by L. J. Rose. He was sired by Sultan. He is on the herd book as Sir Richard. Ben Bolt and he will trot a mile together in 2:50. I am breeding these small horses because they are better saddle horses and travelers.” [Arizona Weekly Citizen, 1/19/1884]. In 1891 there were several newspaper reports of Vail horses participating i…

  • Empire Ranch is Purchased and the Hard Work Begins (August-December 1876)
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    …wned them out. He was ill with fever and 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 s…

  • The Search for the Right Ranch (July 14-August 22, 1876)
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    …red most every day. Last night we had a sandstorm which lasted about forty minutes. There was so much sand and dust in the air that everyone had to retreat to their houses and keep the windows and doors shut while it lasted.” The Happy Valley Ranch was located on the east side of the Rincon Mountains. Image source: An Englishman’s Arizona, 1965 August 7, 1876 – Setting Out for the Happy Valley Ranch Vail writes (8/6/1876): “Hislop and I expect to…

  • Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
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    …f Fame]. Boice was one of 16 cowboys at large elected from anywhere in the United States and Canada.” [Arizona Republic, 1/8/1958] Anthony Quinn, Mary & Bob Bowman, Mary Boice, and Director Hal Wallace, on site while Last Train from Gun Hill was being filmed on the Empire Ranch, 1958. ERF archives: B004-1 Last Train from Gun Hill – 1958 “Look what’s been happening down on the old Empire Ranch some 50 miles southwest of Tucson, where Hal Wallis Pro…

  • Education
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    …– A Prominent Past and Promising Future – 25 minute presentation with slides summarizing the history of the Empire Ranch, preservation of the Empire Ranch buildings, and the Empire Ranch Foundation’s history and activities. Diary of a Desert Trail: 1890 Cattle Drive from Arizona to California – 20 minute presentation with slides of the Empire Ranch’s boycott of the Southern Pacific Railroad’s cattle shipping rate hike. The drive of 900 steers beg…

  • Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
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    …Drive from Arizona to California, Dec 2016, p. 3 LCNCA Junior Explorer Handbook, Mar 2016, p. 4 Visit and Learn, Feb 2014, p. 4 New ERF Website Debuts, Nov 2013, p. 3 Arizona Memory Project Includes Empire Ranch Oral Histories, Feb 2013, p. 4 Local Authors Release New Book, Empire Ranch, Nov 2012, p. 3 New Wayside Signs Surround Ranch House, Feb 2012, p. 3 Enhanced Foundation Brochure Published, Feb 2012, p. 3 New Pocket Guide to Las Cienegas NCA,…

  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
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    …hopes that there will be a change for the better soon.” Cornelius Finley. United States, Officer Down Memorials, 1791-2014 John Hicks Adams. United States, Officer Down Memorials, 1791-2014 Murders in Davidson Canyon – September/October 1878 Captain J.H. Adams and Cornelius Finley, who were managing a mine near Patagonia, were murdered in Davidson Canyon, north of the Empire Ranch, on Sept 2, 1878. According to Edward Vail Adams and Finley had st…

  • The Partners Meet and Prepare to Travel to Arizona (June-July 4, 1876)
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    …is place for just what the improvements cost which is $3800 which would be cheap for the place if anyone was prepared to put 300 good Texas improved cows on it which would cost about $16 per head. If McCartney had stayed with me in the cattle business we might have taken up enough land on water to feed 10,000 head of cattle… I think it will be better for me to go back to Virginia City where I can make a living…” Note that Fish was offering to sell…

  • Special Recreation Permits
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    …lity insurance policy that BLM judges sufficient to protect the public and United States. The policy must name the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management as additionally insured and stipulate that the permittee or the insurer will notify BLM 30 days in advance of termination or modification of the policy. BLM may also require vendors, and other applicants, such as organized groups, to obtain and submit such a policy. Who do I c…