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- Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/about/newsletter/article-topic-index/…e Ranch Roundup is Coming! “Hollywood on the Empire”, May 2005. p. 3 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Meet at Empire Ranch Roundup Open House, Nov 2004, p. 1 The Roundup’s Gathering! Join Us!, Aug 2004, p. 1 Roundup Open House Truly “Better than Ever”, Nov 2003, p. 1 Chuckwagons Roll to Empire Ranch Roundup 2003, Aug 2003, p. 1 Empire Ranch Comes Alive for Roundup Open House, Nov 2002, p. 1 September 14 Empire Roundup To Be the Best Ever!, Aug 2002,…
- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…ruary 1890 Turner and I got a boat with an Indian to row it, and spent the day looking for the best place to swim the cattle. We rode two or three miles up and down the Colorado River and prodded the banks with poles to see how deep the quicksand was. We found it very bad, especially on the west bank where the cattle would land. Finally we found an island near the west bank of the river where the landing was better. The water was not very deep fro…
- 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/…ch by Bruce Andre. Source: ERF Archives, A522-1 July 16, 1878 – First Full Day at Fish’s Ranch Hislop writes: “Got up at daylight very much refreshed though it was such a hard bed, had breakfast and then the proprietor provided us with horses to ride over the ranch which reminds one of the South Downs, being much the same sort of country and evidently a good place for cattle, which was shown by the condition of the cattle. The house is situated on…
- 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/…wned them out. He was ill with fever and got disgusted so let us have them cheap. We gave him 4/-a head, that is cheap enough and they come in very handy to us as meat and when we can get 50 lbs. of meat for 4/-it is not so bad. I think we shall sell them soon for 9/-apiece so if we do, it will not be a bad trade. One day when I was baking my bread I had left the kitchen for a moment to do something and when I returned I caught a snake under the s…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…ribes the hardships of driving the cattle home (2/22/1877): “We were three days bringing the cattle from the San Pedro river to our ranch and a more miserable three days I never spent in my life it rained and snowed together most of the time which kept us wet to the skin which isn’t very pleasant. Then you have to stand guard over a herd of cattle half the night, and then have to roll up in wet blankets in a puddle of water. This is one of the few…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…rrow, in preparation for the eighth annual Intercollegiate rodeo next Saturday and Sunday. In keeping with Go-western week, a corral was set up in front of Old Main yesterday and will open for business tomorrow. Tossed Into the corral will be those who fail to wear the traditional western garb.” [Arizona Daily Star, 3/7/1948] Frank Boice provided the corral described above. Peggy Boice competed in the rodeo and won the Best All Around Cowgirl awar…
- 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/…a significant moment in American history – the centennial of Independence Day, July 4, 1876. Many communities across the country planned 3 day celebrations (July 3-5). In Los Angeles, a grand parade, with four divisions, was planned to begin at 9:30 a.m. at the intersection of 4th and 5th Streets and ending at Round House Gardens where the “literary exercises” of the day would take place. The Los Angeles Herald included ads for several “Grand Bal…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…tive 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 window, view f…
- Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/frank-mary-boice-family-ownership-1951-1969/…ship was 50% Pancho Boice and 50% Bob and Miriam Boice. Pancho managed the day-to-day operations of the Empire Ranch and Bob did the same for the Slash S. Grant Boice recalls: “…we would ship the calves from the Empire up to the Slash S. Instead of selling them at the Empire, we’d pasture them on the Slash S from the fall through the spring. We would sell them from the Slash S in the spring. Everything they did, they did together.” [Grant Boice or…