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  • Empire Land & Cattle Company, 1883-1887
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    …Citizen, 8/8/1885] Rollin R. Richardson. Courtesy of the Patagonia Museum. Trip to Kansas City – October 1885 Walter Vail and R.R. Richardson, owner of the Pennsylvania Ranch near Patagonia, traveled to Kansas City to negotiate rail freight rates for shipping Arizona cattle to Kansas. Later that year Vail, Richardson, and Henry C. Hooker, owner of the Sierra Bonita Ranch in the Sulphur Springs Valley, shipped about 20 carloads of cattle each as an…

  • Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
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    …Pancho frequently flew to the Slash S ranch in Globe which also had an airstrip. The airstrip was decommissioned in the 2000s and is today designated a group camping site on Las Cienegas National Conservation Area. US Census of Agriculture, 1959. Arizona. US Dept. of Commerce Empire Cattle Co. Incorporated as Boice & Company – 1961 In 1961 Pancho and Bob Boice incorporated the Empire Cattle Co. as Boice & Company. As the new decade began Arizona a…

  • Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
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    …ounty, Kan., extends Into Beaver county, Okla., and also includes a large strip of land in Colorado. The run of cattle on the ranch this year numbers over 20,000 head and this was the first shipment made. The ranch is well equipped with modern improvements, such as windmills and water tanks on all parts of the immense track of land, which is all under fence. There are also erected on the ranch sheds and other storm protectors. [The Geuda Springs H…

  • Anamax Ownership, 1975-1988
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    …rom the Slash S worked with Bob, Grant, and Steve Boice on the last Empire roundup. Tucson Citizen photo of Boice Hereford sale, 1975 Boice Hereford Sale – 1975 “The entire breeding herd of the Empire Ranch has been sold at auction in Tucson scattering forever some of the finest Hereford bloodlines in the Southwest Brought to Arizona in 1912 from the sprawling XIT Ranch in Texas the herd has been the pride of the Boice family in Sonoita for genera…

  • History Overview
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    …ranchers known for their promotion of the Hereford breed of cattle in the Southwest. Frank Boice and his wife, Mary Grantham Boice, moved to the Empire Ranch in 1929. Frank and Mary’s sons, Pancho and Bob, grew up on the Empire Ranch and as adults assisted with ranching operations. The Boices added many modern conveniences to the Ranch House. Propane, and eventually natural gas, was piped into the house; a large electric walk-in refrigeration uni…

  • Vail & Harvey, 1879-1882
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    …ss at the Total Wreck and on the Empire Ranch. Nathan most likely made the trip to keep an eye on activities while John Harvey was in England and Walter was in New Jersey. “Everything is going on smooth at the mine. I think the East-drift will be in far enough this week, from what Shaw says to think upon it, it is now running due north. The tunnel is extended 30 ft., and I think within ten days we will strike the load, as the rock is now much more…

  • Cowboy Festival
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    …itions by becoming a sponsor of the Cowboy Festival (formerly known as the Roundup & Open House). Your sponsorship will be acknowledged in the Empire Ranch Foundation program, in our newsletter and on our web page. Click here to view the 2023 Cowboy Festival sponsors. Donate Auction/Raffle Items Auctions and Raffles are a significant part of the fun and help support this event. Do you have an item you’d like to donate to our auction/raffle? We’re…

  • 2023 Cowboy Festival Sponsors
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    …me and Ranch LLC Jean Miller Eric & Sissie Schrader Rachel Sells Friends of the Empire Ranch Cash Donors In Kind Donations Southwest Solutions…

  • 2023 Cowboy Festival Program
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    …tury” 11 am–Dawn Moore Santiago, “’One of the Coolest & Bravest Men in the Southwest Country’: Estevan Ochoa, Hispanic-American Entrepreneur of Arizona & New Mexico” 12 pm–Doug Hocking, “Mining and Prospecting” 1 pm–Rick Collins, “Quirky Episodes of Death and Danger in the Santa Cruz Valley” 2 pm–Dawn Hawkins, “History of the Mescal Movie Set” 3 pm–Bunker DeFrance, Marty Freese, Gene Freese, “In Front & Behind the Camera” Sunday, November 5, 2023…

  • Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
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    …azzle at Roundup Art Show, Nov 2005, p. 3 Shoot Out at the Empire Inspires Roundup Art, Aug 2005, p. 1 Roundup Western Art Sale a Huge Success, Nov 2004, p. 3 Saddle Up & Sidle Over to the Roundup Art Show, Aug 2004, p. 1 Art Show Soars at the Empire Ranch Roundup, Nov 2003, p. 3 Feasting-Not by Bread Alone, Aug 2003, p.3 Picture Perfect, Nov 2002, p. 3 Easels on the Empire, Aug 2002, p. 3 Estaremos Listos! (We Will Be Ready!)…Nov 2001. p. 1 Round