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- Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/about/newsletter/article-topic-index/…mpire Ranch Makes Great Reading, Feb 2007, p. 3 New: Index to Newsletters, Nov 2005, p. 4 Natural Resources Tour LCNCA and the Cienega Watershed, June 2023, p. 3 Celebrating 20 Years of Shared Conservation Stewardship, December 2020, p. 1 Healing Rains, Sep 2017, p. 3 Sawmill Fire Scorches Las Cienegas Area, June 2017, p. 1 Christmas Snow Blankets the Empire Ranch, Mar 2017, p.1 Cottonwoods, more than just a backdrop, June 2016, p. 3 LCNCA Junior…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…project Boice & Company continued ranching under the lease arrangement. On November 4, 1972 Steve Boice, Pancho’s son, married Annie Helmericks at St. Phillip’s in the Hills in Tucson. Steve and Annie met in a chemistry class their freshman year at the University of Arizona. They made their home in the main Ranch House at the Empire Ranch. Steve took over management of the ranching operations, while Pancho concentrated on his other business intere…
- 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/…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…
- Banning Vail, 1909-1929
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/banning-vail-1909-1929/…vertisement. Courtesy of Chronicling America. Tucson’s First Long Distance Phone Call – 1911 Telephone operator, Gradye Drown, placed Tucson’s first long distance telephone call in June, 1911. It was a call “to Los Angeles, for cattleman Banning Vail. The call took several days to arrange and cost Vail $25. ‘We first called Red Rock, then Casa Grande, then Yuma, then El Centro and so on to Los Angeles,’ Drown said in an interview with The Arizona…
- 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/…nd then came advertisements of people in business… In the evening there was a fire…The engines were very soon on the spot and then came the hose and fire-escapes drawn by a number of men, the mob all helping. They soon put it out and then went to finish the 4th July in the drinking saloons.”…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…I have had one or two scares and that is quite enough for me. We have about 800 head of cattle on the ranch, all cows, and Vail has just gone to New Mexico to buy about 40 good blooded bulls which he will bring here as soon as possible. I do not know how many calves we have at present but shall know by November, as then we shall brand and earmark them. From what I see riding round now, there are a good number. Our band of horses consists of 20 bro…
- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…os Angeles and Southern California, 1910. That Scoundrel, G. G. Gillette – November 1898 In late November the cattle industry was rocked by the news that George Grant Gillette, the “cattle king” of Woodbine, Kansas, “busted owing people in all part of the country over a million dollars.” A charming and colorful character “He would buy thousands of cattle without ever seeing them and his success induced rich men to trust him with lots of money. He…
- Tour the Cienega Watershed
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/2023/04/tour-the-cienega-watershed/…avelStory 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 Trailhead (in Vail), Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, the Empire Ranch Headquarters, wildlife viewing and many other feat…
- 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/…and very much admired.” Hislop’s hand drawn map of the Empire Ranch house, November 25, 1876. Source: An Englishman’s Arizona, 1965. August 12-21, 1876 – Vail and Hislop Decide to Purchase the Empire Ranch Hislop writes (9/23/1876): “We stayed in Tucson for 4 days and all the time I was very ill, not being able to do anything, having a slight attack of fever. I can tell you I wished I was well out of the country, I was miserable but doctored mysel…
- Cowboy Festival Vendor Application
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/ranch-events/cowboy-festival/roundup-vendor-application/…e for the duration of the Festival. No vendor may “pack up and leave” until 4 pm, November 3, 2024. Most spaces, unless otherwise requested, are 10 x 10. Event setup: Vendors may check in and set up between the following hours: Friday, Nov. 1st between 12 pm and 4 pm, or Saturday, Nov. 2nd before 8 am. No parking will be allowed on Ranch grounds – all vendors must move cars to approved parking area. Information Packet: A welcome packet with event…