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- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…th Heady and Ashburn, of Patagonia.” [Arizona Daily Star, 7/9/1935] Cactus garden, 1930s. ERF archives: B206-70. Garden area south of Empire Ranch House, 1950s. ERF archives: B300-48. Flower beds, 1930s. ERF archives: B206-67. Fountain, 2011. ERF archives: D606-741a. Mary Boice Landscaping at Empire Ranch – 1935 By the mid-1930s Mary Boice’s gardening efforts had transformed the family landscape on the west side of the Empire Ranch House. She crea…
- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…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…
- Empire Land & Cattle Company, 1883-1887
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/empire-land-cattle-company-1883-1887/…frame in Room 3 of the Empire Ranch House today. A Restless Night at Happy Valley – August 1884 The beds in the Happy Valley ranch house were not especially comfortable. “Walter says if you come out we will all go over when he brands in the spring and stay a couple of weeks, but we will take some beds. The first night we slept on blankets on the floor. I never knew a floor was so hard. The next we found an old spring mattress; the Baby was on a co…
- Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/boice-family-ranching-history-1859-1928/…Cattle Company (CCC) which established in the 1870s in the Sulphur Springs Valley of SE Arizona. The CCC had been sold to a group of Texas investors in 1909 by J.V. Vickers and his partners. Henry Boice persuaded the controlling partners to purchase 400 of the XIT purebred Hereford herd to stock the CCC. In its heyday the CCC controlled over 1.6 million acres of grazing land. By the time Henry Boice undertook its management homesteaders were farmi…
- 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…
- 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/…ls are in Nebraska.” Arizona Citizen (9/23/1876) reports: “Upper San Pedro Valley, Sept. 16. Editor. Citizen : A sad calamity has fallen upon our valley. Mr. .J. C. Johnson can be added to the list of martyrs. He was killed by the Indians while at work on the road some twenty miles above the Upper Crossing. Calvin Mowrey is also missing and there is but little doubt he has shared the same fate. They had labored hard all Summer together and succeed…
- 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/…eir 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 start out in the morning to look at a ranch that belongs to Mr. Page and we will probably be gone for about four or five days so if you don’t hear from me for so…
- 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/…such rum things and then do all their transactions so queerly.” Woodward’s Gardens in San Francisco. Photo: San Francisco Memories A Visit to Woodward’s Gardens Walter wrote to his fiancée, Maggie (6/23/1876), that he Herbert, and Nathan Vail visited Woodward’s Gardens in the Mission District of San Francisco. It was a combination zoo, museum and amusement park. Nathan and Anna Walker Vail Introducing Nathan and Anna Vail Nathan Randolph Vail (182…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…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/…
- 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…