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  • The Search for the Right Ranch (July 14-August 22, 1876)
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    …nce more getting into the civilized world. Walter Vail’s fiancée, Margaret Russell Newhall, ca 1884. Source: ERF archives, A530-80 July 18, 1876 – Vail’s Impression of Fish’s Ranch Vail writes to his fiancée Maggie (7/18/1876): I have just returned from a ranch fifty miles south of Tucson which is called the Fish ranch as it belongs to a Mr. Fish, it is quite a pretty place it consists mostly of rolling hills which reminds me very much of the Iowa…

  • Banning Vail, 1909-1929
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    …e at the ranch at that moment. Dad was down at the farm with his car. The truck was on a run to Sonoita or something. There wasn’t anything to go down and get my father, or to get me into Tucson. And she finally told Apache Joe to hitch up the chuck wagon! Well about that time the truck driver got back, so he went on down to the farm and let Dad know. And of course then they took me on into Tucson.” [Dusty Vail Ingram oral history, 1993] Children…

  • Empire Ranch is Purchased and the Hard Work Begins (August-December 1876)
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    …s afternoon fore I only had to pay $75. I don’t know what it would cost in New York but I suppose $25 would be a big price.” There is to be a grand feast in Tucson which will commence the 28th of this month and will last ten days. It is a Catholic feast which is gotten up by the Mexicans, there are thousands here every year from Mexico who come on purpose to attend the feast and gamble. I am in hopes we will get away from this place before the fea…

  • Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
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    …8 In 1908 Henry Boice organized a syndicate to purchase the Block Ranch in New Mexico. In June of that year, while loading cattle from the Block Ranch at Roswell, H.S. had a brush with death. “Boice, according to the report was overseeing the loading of some of the Block ranch cattle which he had recently purchased. Along with the men who were working the cattle at the yard he noticed an outsider, intoxicated to a state of reckless dare-deviltry,…

  • New Ranch House Fund
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  • 2023 Cowboy Festival Program
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    …ache ATV Tours (guided ATV tours of SE AZ) AZWoodenFlagCo (handmade wooden American flags and wooden American flag crosses, wooden crosses, laser engraved slate stone drink coasters and leather wrapped flasks, wooden beer bottle openers, Native American and other jewelry) Besquare Bags and More (aprons, towels, turtle mops, burrito baby blankets) BlackJack Citrus Infusions (lemonade) The Candle Bunkhouse (hand-made & hand-poured soy candles, room…

  • New Ranch House Capital Campaign
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    …Conservation Area, and as office space where our board members, or in the future, a new administrative director can work. Click here to find out how you can help….

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  • Buildings & Structures
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    …building was used as a residence by the family of Pancho Boice until construction finished on the New Ranch House and by families working on the Empire such as Fred and Ruby Barnett (1940s). Hired Man’s House This single-story, two-room, single-pile, rectangular plan, 40-feet by 14-feet, was constructed in the early 20th century from adobe bricks. The end-gabled roof is covered in corrugated metal. Mariano Ferra lived in the house starting in 192…

  • History Overview
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    …xtended complex with more than 22-rooms and a number of outbuildings and structures were added. Their original flat earthern roofs were later replaced with wooden gable roofs. Click here to learn more about the Empire Ranch buildings and structures. In 1896, in order to turn his attention more fully to growing corporate holdings in California. Walter Vail moved his family to Los Angeles and established his corporate headquarters there. Continuing…