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- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…ts side and haul it to the bank with our reatas. Ned Vail’s signature on a rock at Painted Rock Petroglyph Site, Arizona. In addition to hundreds of symbolic and artistic rock etchings, or “petroglyphs,” produced centuries ago by prehistoric peoples, there are also inscriptions made by people who passed through during historic times. Courtesy of Doug Hocking A Hot Bath at Agua Caliente – February 1890 While we were at Gila Bend I went with the coo…
- 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/…t for all that we were obliged to go, so bought horses and I bought a fine little horse and saddle… He is as nice a little thing to ride as one can wish for. I take him over 50 miles a day as easily as anything and only feed him on grass. It is wonderful the distances the horses will travel in this country. In the evening I was going to feel a work steer to see what condition he was in when he turned round and gave a kick on my leg but it did not…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…as taken with the rest of the stock. I went over to receive and help gather 800 cows which we bought from a Mr. Miller, We followed the track of the Indians the next morning into the mountains but found that they outnumbered us and had every advantage in the world over our party, so we concluded to give up the chase. The Indians after taking our horses from the San Pedro they came right over to this part of the country and took horses from all the…
- 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…
- Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/boice-family-ranching-history-1859-1928/…rn cowboying skills at the early age of 6 1/2 and 5 respectively. Point of Rocks Ranch. Courtesy of Santa Fe Trails Research Point of Rock Ranch – 1897 A newspaper article described the Point of Rock ranching operation. “The Boice Cattle company recently marketed a whole train load of cows at Kansas City. The company is the owners of one of the largest ranches in the Southwest at Point Rock Kansas. This ranch covers a portion of Morton county, Kan…
- 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/…horses and mules have been stolen by Apaches, from the people, and quite a number of cattle killed. The Apaches kill a beef when they are in want of beef, and take what they need at the time and let the balance remain to spoil or be eaten by wild beasts. The settlers to the number of twenty-five, recently followed the trail of the stock and thieves, thinking first it might lead to San Carlos, but it led directly to New Mexico, and they followed it…
- 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/…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…
- 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/…
- Empire Land & Cattle Company, 1883-1887
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/empire-land-cattle-company-1883-1887/…corns. The boys went after her trying to lasso her – she would run but the little bear was so fat he could not get along so she would wait for him and whenever any of the boys would come near she would raise up and be ready to embrace them. They wanted to get her in the open country but Shaw did not know how the land lay and fast as they got her started in the right direction he headed her off and she got in the hills again. Perhaps it is just as…
- Vail & Harvey, 1879-1882
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-harvey-1879-1882/…tended 30 ft., and I think within ten days we will strike the load, as the rock is now much more broken up & less difficult to take out. The track iron & cars should be here this week and once down it will help very much as it takes 3 men and burros each shift & three can’t remove ore & rock as fast as it can be taken out. One man can put more ore down the shoot in a day than 4 windlass could hoist but when we have cars that will take 700 lbs. I t…