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  • Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
    https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/

    …d is red clay and will not absorb sewage.” [Tucson Citizen, 3/18/1971] The SCC Board eventually approved the proposal in October, with some reductions in the scope of the project. Artistic rendering of the Empire Ranch development. ERF archives: C500-012 GAC Ready to Start – 1972 “GAC Properties, Inc., of Arizona Is only a step away from starting its proposed 32,000-acre Empire Ranch satellite city in southern Pima County, according to Jim Dudley,…

  • 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…

  • 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 Partners Meet and Prepare to Travel to Arizona (June-July 4, 1876)
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    …sent the different states and then came advertisements of people in business… In the evening there was a fire…The engines were very soon on the spot and then came the hose and fire-escapes drawn by a number of men, the mob all helping. They soon put it out and then went to finish the 4th July in the drinking saloons.”…

  • Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
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    …been near enough to see them yet and do not want to. I have had one or two scares and that is quite enough for me. We have about 800 head of cattle on the ranch, all cows, and Vail has just gone to New Mexico to buy about 40 good blooded bulls which he will bring here as soon as possible. I do not know how many calves we have at present but shall know by November, as then we shall brand and earmark them. From what I see riding round now, there are…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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/

    …Good Times for Pima County An article in the Arizona Citizen, August 5th discusses the Pima County economy and possibly referred to Vail and Hislop’s explorations: “The song of hard times has been sung ever since we can remember anything. Not a year wholly passes without the doleful notes being more than uselessly hummed, not in on locality but in all places the world over. So far as Pima county is concerned we can see as little cause for crying h…

  • Reading List
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    …ers] Empire Ranch by Gail Waechter Corkill and Sharon E. Hunt, Charleston, SC, Arcadia Publishing, 2011. Images of America series. [order from the Empire Ranch Foundation] Heart of the Empire. Historic Structure Report, Empire Ranch, Arizona by Laura Soulliere Harrison and Paul Niedenger, Volume 1, December 1992, revised 2020. Historic American Landscape Survey: Empire Ranch. Washington, DC, National Park Survey, 2016. HALS AZ-19. History of the E…

  • 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…