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  • Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
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    …lled “Camp Grant Massacre.” He with William Oury, eight Americans, quite a number of Mexicans and a large number of Papago Indians marched over to the mouth of Aravaipa Canyon, which was right in sight of the old Camp Grant but then occupied by American troops and nearly exterminated that band of Apaches. They killed all but the children whom they brought to Tucson as prisoners. The cause of this expedition was the constant raids of the Apaches ag…

  • The Search for the Right Ranch (July 14-August 22, 1876)
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    …destination by sundown. Here we had a comfortable bed, having laid on the ground in a blanket since July 21st, pretty rough I can tell you. Here we rested a day or two and tried to deal with a man for his ranch, but with no success, as he wanted just double what we felt inclined to give, but expect he will come down, as he wants to sell.” Mission San Xavier del Bac, ca. 1890. Taken by Empire Ranch foreman Harry Heffner. Source: ERF archives A536-0…

  • The Partners Meet and Prepare to Travel to Arizona (June-July 4, 1876)
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    …876, Los Angeles, California Herbert Hislop and Walter Vail purchase stage tickets from Indian Wells (now Indio) California to Tucson Arizona. Hislop describes the celebrating underway on 4th of July eve. “They were letting off fireworks and firing anvils in the streets. The way they fire anvils is this, they bury one anvil in the ground, the bottom side uppermost and fill the little square hole with gunpowder, placing the other anvil on the top…

  • The Trip from Los Angeles to Tucson (July 5-13, 1876)
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    …Hislop, 1876-1878. Tucson: Overland Press, 1965. Walter Vail had made the trip once before, in 1875. He began to write of his experiences towards the end of the trip. Arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Los Angeles, 1876. Source: Views of Early Los Angeles July 5, 1876 – Los Angeles to Indio Walter L. Vail and his partner, Herbert R. Hislop, leave Los Angeles for Tucson. Hislop writes, “Left Los Angeles for Tucson at 2:30 p.m. having gird…

  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
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    …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 brood mares and 16 horse and mule colts, yearlings, and 9 saddle horses at present. Only 4 this year’s colts but expect to have about 16 to 20 making close on 50 head of horse stock.” Sheep herding on Santa Rosa Island, 1900s. Photo taken by Edward L. Vail. ERF archives: A530-571a Pesky Neighbors – May 18…

  • Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
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    …appeared in the Arizona Daily Star. Her account of an Empire Ranch rodeo [roundup] documents the complexity of rounding up cattle on a large ranch like the Empire. “Mrs. Otis Christian and Eva E. Ferra drove up to the Hilton ranch where the cowpunchers had the rodeo, they took dinner to the cowpunchers. In the morning Mr. H.G. Bolce cut out the cattle he didn’t want. After dinner they branded one hundred and fifty-four calves. Eva enjoyed herself…

  • Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
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    …pted 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 Star, 6/5/…

  • 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…

  • Banning Vail, 1909-1929
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    …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…

  • Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
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    …Pancho frequently flew to the Slash S ranch in Globe which also had an airstrip. The airstrip was decommissioned in the 2000s and is today designated a group camping site on Las Cienegas National Conservation Area. US Census of Agriculture, 1959. Arizona. US Dept. of Commerce Empire Cattle Co. Incorporated as Boice & Company – 1961 In 1961 Pancho and Bob Boice incorporated the Empire Cattle Co. as Boice & Company. As the new decade began Arizona a…