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  • Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/

    …chool. At Tucson High School she was elected secretary-treasurer of Junior class and secretary of Senior class. She was a leader in the Arizona Junior Cattlegrowers Association, serving as secretary and vice president. For several years she participated as a “cigarette girl” at the Baile de los Flores fundraiser for St. Luke’s in the Desert Sanitorium. And she competed in riding at the Tucson Livestock Show and other venues on her horse “Taffy.” O…

  • ERF Docent Training Class
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/events/erf-docent-training-class/

    …19 Feb ERF Docent Training Class 02/19/2022 9:00 am – 2:30 pm Empire Ranch Headquarters ERF Docent Training Class. 9 am to 2:30 pm. Click here to register for the class….

  • 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/…

  • Docent Training Class
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/events/docent-training-class/

    …29 Feb Docent Training Class 02/29/2020 9:00 am – 2:30 pm Empire Ranch Visitor Contact Center Docent Training Class, 9 am to 2:30 pm. Visitor Contact Station. Click here for more information and to register….

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Tour the Cienega Watershed
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/2023/04/tour-the-cienega-watershed/

    …avelStory and select “Tour the Cienega Watershed” to save the tour on your phone. Once you’ve download the app and the tour, no Internet access is needed. 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 feat…