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- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…ought conditions “The loss of stock has as yet been small,” said Walter L. Vail of Vail & Gates. “The old feed on which stock is now grazing is in fairly good condition. Heavy rains might beat it down, wash out the nutriment and cause it to rot so as to destroy its value for stock. In that event there might be a few weeks before the fresh feed has grown in which stock would have pretty thin picking. As is usual at this time of year Southern Califo…
- The Filming of Red River
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/movies-2/the-filming-of-red-river/…in scenes where Walter Brennan is loading the chuckwagon and talking with Montgomery Cliff. Scenes with galloping horses were shot in the corral on the eastside of the Adobe Haybarn. The San Pedro River near Fairbank was the location for the “river crossing” scene. Five dams were constructed above the crossing point to ensure ample water in the river when several thousand head of cattle crossed. [Arizona Daily Star, 10/11/1946]. The city of Abile…
- 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…
- 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/…ld perish and ourselves too, so thought ”Discretion was the better part of valor.” Vail writes (7/20/1876): Since we arrived here Hislop and I have been looking about the country but as yet we have not decided definitely on anything but hope to before long as it is rather unsatisfactory rambling about but I think it best not to be in a hurry. We expect to start out in the morning to look at a place which is about 30 miles from this place, we will…
- 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…
- Movies Filmed at the Ranch
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/movies-2/movies/…senberg) Posse, Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern (1975, Kirk Douglas) Posse, Mario Van Peebles, Stephen Baldwin (1993, Mario Van Peebles) Red River, James Arness, Bruce Boxleitner (1988 TV, Richard Michaels) Red River, John Wayne, Montgomery Clift (1948, Howard Hawks) Return of the Gunfighter, Robert Taylor, Chad Everett (1967, James Neilson) Ruby Jean and Joe, Tom Selleck, Ben Johnson (1996 TV, Jeffrey Sax) The Big Country, Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Ch…