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

    …hers.’ [Tucson Garden Club website] WWII Draft Concerns – 1942 On September 16, 1940, the United States instituted the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. By 1942 the draft was beginning to affect ranching operations throughout the west. “Frank Boice, president of the American National Livestock association, said Tuesday as he left for Wyoming to confer with a…

  • Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
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    …Boice, 1972. ERF archives: B375-06 Steve Boice and Annie Helmericks Marry – 1972 While Gulf American Corporation proceeding with the permitting process for their planned development of the Empire Ranch project Boice & Company continued ranching under the lease arrangement. On November 4, 1972 Steve Boice, Pancho’s son, married Annie Helmericks at St. Phillip’s in the Hills in Tucson. Steve and Annie met in a chemistry class their freshman year at…

  • Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/frank-mary-boice-family-ownership-1951-1969/

    …nd Miriam Boice’s second child, Robert Grantham Boice, was born on February 10, 1953. He was known as Grant. Pancho and Sherry Boice’s third child, Sherry Bailey Boice, was born on December 15, 1953. Norman Hinman on horseback in California, 1950. ERF archives: B406-105 Norman Hinman – 1953 Norman Hinman worked as a cowhand for the Boice family for four months (May-August) in 1953. He had finished one year of college in California when he decided…

  • Banning Vail, 1909-1929
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    …the call went through.” [Arizona Daily Star, 6/19/1986] Banning Vail at age 17, 1906. ERF archives, A530-45. William Banning Vail Becomes Manager – 1912 Banning Vail took over management of the Empire Ranch around 1912. He was 23 years old. In Los Angeles Banning had attended Throop Polytechnic Institute when the school’s mission was “to train Pasadena’s youth, from elementary school through college, for factory work in an industrial society.” The…

  • Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
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    …Margaret’s children, William Banning Vail, was born in Los Angeles on April 13, 1889. He used his middle name, Banning, and was named after Walter Vail’s good friend, William Banning, whose family owned Catalina Island from 1892-1919. Southern Pacific Railroad engine and crew, circa 1910. Courtesy of Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block. Southern Pacific Railroad Announces Rate Increase – 1889 As overstocking increased in the late l880s, Vail a…

  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
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    …f Range 19S, Township 17E, southeast of the Empire Ranch located in Section 18. USGS 1905 Patagonia Quadrant map. Neighbor Perry M. Hilton – February 1878 Walter identifies the neighbor causing problems: “One of our neighbors [Perry] Hilton who has sheep does everything he can to annoy us. Harvey and Hislop had trouble with him while I was away and he does not leave a stone unturned to annoy us, he pretends to think a great deal of me but I well k…

  • 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/

    …gon-fly and sometimes fly a long way. I saw one fly 40 yards. It was about 1 1/2 pounds weight. The waters of the Pacific Ocean seem to abound in living things and living wonders to me. I had the pleasure of being seasick again.” Pico House, Los Angeles, CA, 1891 Source: Wikipedia Englishmen Everywhere Hislop writes from the Pico House, Los Angeles (7/3/1876): “On board we met a very nice young Englishman, Captain Hutchinson, who has a ranch abou…

  • 2023 Cowboy Festival Program
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    …n under 18 years of age. Registration fee is $50. Rides depart at 10:30 am, 11:45am, 1:00 pm, 2:15 pm, and 3:15 pm. GREAT LUNCH GRUB Craving Sweets and Treats (panini sandwiches, freeze dried candy, lemonade, iced tea, italian sodas, lotus energy drinks, cotton candy) El Taco Asere Hot Dogs y Mas (authentic Mexican food: tacos, burros, hot dogs y more) Fiesta Filipina (Filipino & Asian Cuisine) Willysphillys (Philly cheese steaks, hamburgers, hot…

  • Tour the Cienega Watershed
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    …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…

  • 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/

    …Mustang Mountains in the background, 1880s. ERF archives: A530-08 September 1-9, 1876 – Empire Ranch Expansion Begins Hislop writes (9/23/1876): “We have got another ranch now and 620 sheep on it, we bought the man that owned 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…