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  • Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
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    …ov 2002, p. 4 NCA Dedication Celebrates Partners, Feb 2002, p. 2 WATG Camps–Wild about the Grasslands WATG 2013, Feb 2013, p. 3 Register Now for WATG, May 2012, p. 2 Save the Dates for WATG Summer Camps, Feb 2012, p. 3 Wild About the Grasslands 2011, Aug 2011, p. 3 Last Chance to Register for WATG 2011, May 2011, p. 3 WATG Spring and Summer Camps announced, Feb 2011, p.3 Santa Cruz Cachers, Feb 2011, p.4 New Summer Camp for Youngsters Premiers, A…

  • Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
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    …Colorado Desert landscape. Wikipedia. Crossing the “Great Colorado Desert” – March 1890 We soon got all our cattle together on the California side and were ready to move. All were glad to get away from Yuma and take our chance on “The Great Colorado Desert,” as it was then called. We followed the river and met a man named Carter, who had a small cattle ranch, from whom we bought half a beef that he had just killed. Our cattle were too poor for bee…

  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
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    …” Branding in a retaque corral, ca. 1900. ERF archives: A536-33a. Branding – March 1877 Vail also found the branding taxing (3/2/1877): “We have been very busy for the last few days branding our cattle which has been pretty hard work and I am glad to say it is about finishes we only have about 70 head that all not branded, we had some cows that were so cross that we could only work around them on horseback. One cow chased me right through the kitc…

  • Newsletter
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    …er (Vol. 22, Issue 4) September (Vol. 22, Issue 3) June (Vol. 22, Issue 2) March (Vol. 22, Issue 1) 2020 December (Vol. 21, Issue 4) June/September (Vol. 21, Issue 2/3) March (Vol. 21, Issue 1) 2019 December (Vol. 20, Issue 4) September (Vol. 20, Issue 3) June (Vol. 20, Issue 2) March (Vol. 20, Issue 1) 2018 December (Vol. 19, Issue 4) September (Vol. 19, Issue 3) June (Vol. 19, Issue 2) March (Vol. 19, Issue 1) 2017 December (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Se…

  • Banning Vail, 1909-1929
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    …Vail riding “Molly,” 1920s. ERF archives: A300-014 Thomas Edward Vail Born – March 11, 1919 Thomas Edward Vail was born in Tucson on March 11, 1919. He was more affected by the Rh incompatibility issue than his older brother Bill, and Tom spent most of the first year of his life in Los Angeles Children’s Hospital. Once recovered he took up ranch life with his brother and sister, including horseback riding. Tom Vail riding “Molly,” 1920s. ERF archi…

  • The Partners Meet and Prepare to Travel to Arizona (June-July 4, 1876)
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    …he Empire Ranch Foundation: “Grandfather, Edward Nye Fish, sent his brother-in-law, William Wakefield, out to homestead the Empire Ranch. Far be it from Grandpa to bother about that! Evidently Uncle Will did a lot of his footwork for him – a lot of mining and things like that, that Grandpa was interested in. Grandpa would put up the money, and then Uncle Will would go out and do it. And then after he had proven up on it, then Grandpa paid him off…

  • Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
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    …ce, president of the Arizona Cattle Growers Association and operator of the 800-cow, 60-section Empire Ranch near Sonoita, said he was feeding his cattle a protein supplement. ‘The conditions are real dry and the grazing conditions are poor,’ he said. He said some shallow wells are pumping air part of the time. ‘I don’t know of anyone in our area who is hauling water yet,’ he said. ‘Most of the people depend on windmills. There’s talk among some o…

  • Empire Ranch is Purchased and the Hard Work Begins (August-December 1876)
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    …stang Mountains in the background, 1880s. ERF archives: A530-08 September 1-9, 1876 – Empire Ranch Expansion Begins Hislop writes (9/23/1876): “We have got another ranch now and 620 sheep on it, we bought the man that owned 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 t…

  • Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
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    …ivate Memorial Room at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, CA. Courtesy of Find-A-Grave Henry S. Boice Dies – 1919 On December 7, 1919 Henry S. Boice died in Pasadena, CA. He had been ill for several months. He was survived by his wife, LuBelle and their five children. Will Barnes wrote in his obituary of Henry S.: “In his home life he was singularly happy, his relations with his children being more that of a big brother than a father.” [The Breeder’s…

  • Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
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    …ding son Fred. Courtesy of Lynn Rubel. B410-109 Henry Boice President ANLA – 1930-1933 Henry Boice was elected President of the American National Livestock Association (ANLA) in 1930. He served in this capacity until 1933. His presidential address in 1932, during the Great Depression, cautioned his fellow ranchers. “In times like them it behooves all of us to stop and analyze the effects of present circumstances and changing conditions upon the ch…