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  • 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/

    …fe Anna Vail and with Walter’s brother Edward (Ned). From New York City he traveled up the Hudson River to Albany. After visiting Niagara Falls he traveled by train to Chicago where he waited for Nathan Vail. They “…journeyed on together to San Francisco which took us exactly 5 days and 5 nights constant travelling, sleeping all the time on the Pullman sleeping cars. You cannot form any idea what size America is until you begin to run on the railw…

  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
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    …hing.” Walter Vail on horseback, ca. 1898. ERF archives: A530-42a Walter’s Travels – November-December 1877 Walter spent the latter part of 1877 traveling. He first visited his cousin Tracy in Kansas where he was able to hunt for prairie chickens. December found him in Los Angeles visiting Uncle Nathan and Aunt Anna Vail. He met an acquaintance from Arizona who: “…said that when he left our cattle where looking very well where mostly all fit for b…

  • 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…

  • The Search for the Right Ranch (July 14-August 22, 1876)
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    …ies and feeding our horses with barley we only paid $6 which we considered cheap for this place and so it was. We reached Tucson in about 6 hours and then had a good wash and made ourselves look like gentlemen. I should like you to see my travelling costume. I think I must be photographed and send it to you, it would be an ornament for the album and very much admired.” Hislop’s hand drawn map of the Empire Ranch house, November 25, 1876. Source: A…

  • 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/…

  • 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…

  • Empire Ranch is Purchased and the Hard Work Begins (August-December 1876)
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    …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…

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

    …ts in the watershed. Start by downloading the TravelStorys.Com App to your phone or other device. Open TravelStory 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…

  • Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
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    …icultural statistics documented ranching trends between 1940 and 1959. The number of “farms” reporting sales of cattle and/or calves decreased 42% while the number of live cattle and/or calves sold increased 134%. Boice/Rubel families: (back row) Henry G. and Margaret Boice; Ann and Fred Boice holding Fred Boice, Jr., Peggy and Jack Rubel. (front row, l-r, Jennifer Boice, Lynn Rubel, Mariann Boice, Henry Boice, John and Tom Rubel, 1961. Courtesy o…

  • Cowboy Festival
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    …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; children’s toys; vacation home for a week; professional services, tickets to an entertainment or sporting event; jewelry, edibles – the list goes on and on. Be a Festival Volunteer More than 200 volunteers are needed during the Cowboy Festival, for a m…