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- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…ciation executive secretary, said employees of the Peabody Mine heard the plane late Sunday, realized it was in trouble and started looking. The wreckage was spotted before dawn Monday. The accident occurred 15 miles south of Tuba City at an area known as Perkins Mine.” [Arizona Daily Star, 11/20/1973] Pancho was flying to the Colorado feedlots. Pancho’s death was a devastating blow to the Boice family and Boice & Company. Empire Ranch House bay w…
- 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/…attle (12/16/1876): “I just returned from the San Pedro River night before last where I have been for the last four days looking at some cattle there have just come from Texas. Hislop Harvey and I all went together we had quite a pleasant time though the nights are rather cold to sleep out now. We camped one night at the foot of the Huachuca Mountains which is supposed to have a band of Apache Indians in them, the next morning we teased Harvey a g…
- Banning Vail, 1909-1929
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/banning-vail-1909-1929/…to do. There were quite a few pens there, so that you could take care of a large number of cattle. And the fences had a little sort of walkway on top. There was a board about that wide on the top, so that you could walk around on the top of the fence and do things. And I remember a couple of years before we left [1928], that they started dehorning. They’d never done dehorning before.” [Dusty Vail Ingram oral history, 1993] Edward Vail photo of bro…
- 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/…00. In a few months this property would become the Empire Ranch. Virginia Flaccus, relates in her oral history with the 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…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…ploring a possible mining project. “Harvey and I intend to take up a mine claim near our place that was shown to me by a man that is working at Mr. Sanfords. He gave Harvey some of the rock to have assayed and said we might have the claim if we wanted it, so we told him we would take up the mine and if we ever made anything out of it we would give him a third of the profit. The piece we sent to Tucson to be assayed went $568 to the ton but we cann…
- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/….” 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 against the settlers on the…
- Tour the Cienega Watershed
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/2023/04/tour-the-cienega-watershed/…eeded. 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 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…
- 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/…you Sunday night, I thought you and I where taking a walk through our old place in Plainfield and I thought that it seemed and looked to me just as it did when we lived there thirteen years ago, the trees the house and the grounds where just the same as they used to be … I thought I was showing you the places where I used to play … when imagine my disgust when I woke up and found myself rolled up in blankets on the dirt floor of Mr. Fish’s house…”…
- Cowboy Festival
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/ranch-events/cowboy-festival/…can be used by same), but all items from dinner to services are welcome – large and small! Don’t limit yourself to the obvious, please think outside the corral! Here’s some ideas: authentic western apparel; artwork; tack and supplies; collectibles; gift certificates for hotel stays or golf play; restaurant gift certificates; instruments; weekend getaways; time spent with well-known artist; baskets filled with goodies; handcrafted items; books; ch…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…born in Chicago, IL on June 20, 1929. She was valedictorian of her senior class at Kalamazoo High School and entered the University of Arizona in 1946 where she and Pancho met. Sherry and Pancho returned to their classes at the University of Arizona after their marriage. 1949 Empire Ranch Roundup. ERF archives: B001-2 Empire Ranch Roundup – 1949 Despite leading busy lives in Tucson and at the University of Arizona an Empire Ranch roundup always br…