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- 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 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/After exploring three ranches in the Tucson vicinity Walter L. Vail and Herbert Hislop decided to purchase Fish’s ranch, which they begin to call the Empire Ranch. It is not clear who named the ranch. The partners begin the hard work of completing the 4-room adobe building, stocking the ranch, and expanding its land holdings. Cienega Creek in Davidson Canyon. This creek is one of the main water sources for the Empire Ranch supplies about 20 perce…
- Banning Vail, 1909-1929
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/banning-vail-1909-1929/…ng operations. 1910 Census The Turner family and 10 staff are recorded as living at the Empire Ranch in the 1910 U.S. Census. Margaret Vail and all her children were listed as living at the Los Angeles home. Image of Headquarters Buildings lost in the fire. Courtesy of Robin Pinto Fire at the Empire Ranch – May 1910 On May 9, 1910 a fire broke out at Empire Ranch Headquarters. Fortunately, a group of Fort Huachuca soldiers were camped there at the…
- 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, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…me with the ranch purchase. They also had to contend with the dangers of raiding Chiricahua Apache warriors, and neighborly competition for land and water resources. Cowboys and horses in Empire Ranch corral, ca. 1900. ERF Archives A536-197. Horseshoeing and Interior Decorating – January 1877 In January 1877 Vail writes (1/2/1877): “We are having a great time this afternoon shoeing horse, I am head horseshoer, Hislop is 2nd and Harvey and the man…
- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…fa pasturage” and purchased 200 tons of hay to fatten his cattle. [Tucson Citizen, 10/6/1888]. He also began to look for property in California. In 1888 he and a new partner, Carroll W. Gates, leased the 26,700-acre Warner Ranch in San Diego County. View a summary of the forces at work in Arizona ranching here. Carroll W. Gates, 1909. ERF archives: A540-009 Carroll W. Gates (1860-1920) Carroll Gates was born in New York in 1860 and moved at an ear…
- Reading List
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/articles-and-links/…th permission of Betty Barr. Growing up a tomboy on the Empire Ranch, Part II by Betty Barr. The Bulletin, 13(21):1, 8, June 25, 2003. Posted with permission of Betty Barr. May We Introduce… Mrs. John Harvey. Empire Ranch Foundation News. Aug 2010, 11(3):4. Santa Rosa Island Rancher Walter Vail Honored by National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum by Vail Family. Noozhawk, September 4, 2018. University of Arizona Library Special Collections, Online…
- Tour the Cienega Watershed
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/2023/04/tour-the-cienega-watershed/Take a free audio driving tour of the Cienega Watershed and learn about the social and cultural history, ecology, wildlife management, and conservation efforts 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-styl…
- Membership
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- 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/…et a place suited to our requirements and on reasonable terms.” The availability of riding stock had not improved since Walter Vail’s visit to Tucson in 1875 when he wrote (11/23/1875): “I have been trying ever since I came here to hire horses for a trip through the country but have not been able to do anything until this morning which was to buy a mule which is just the thing.” Empire Ranch landscape, taken in July 2015 by Sally Reichardt. Source…