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The Voices of the Cienega Watershed Partnership
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    • Las Cienegas Conservation Area Green-Up (Cienega Watershed)

    • Las Cienegas Conservation Area Green-Up (Cienega Watershed)
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    • Cienega Watershed (Ariz.); Bureau of Land Management; Land Use--Planning

    • Las Cienegas National Conservation Area is at the heartland of the southern part of the Cienega Watershed in southeastern Arizona. This desert grassland has been described as emerald green when temperatures and moisture permit native grasses to...
    • Empire Gulch on the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area

    • Empire Gulch on the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area
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    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona; Las Cienegas National Conservation Area (Ariz.)

    • Empire Gulch on Las Cienegas National Conservation Area is a significant riparian area, with year-round water and dense vegetation important to birds and mammals. Once part of the historic Empire Ranch, the Gulch has been used for some time as a...
    • Jim Shilling

    • Jim Shilling
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    • Amerind Foundation (Ariz.); Texas Canyon (Ariz.)

    • Jim Shilling is a grandson of the original settlers of Texas Canyon. This photograph was taken at the time of his oral history interview on August 28, 2008. In his oral history, Shilling recounts the dance hall on the rock in Texas Canyon. Jim...
    • Texas Canyon Cemetery

    • Texas Canyon Cemetery
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    • Amerind Foundation (Ariz.); Texas Canyon (Ariz.)

    • Photograph of the Texas Canyon Cemetery, located on the property of the Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona.
    • Fred Baker, Dean Bibles, and Henry Bisson Oral History Interview

    • Fred Baker, Dean Bibles, and Henry Bisson Oral History Interview

    • Baker, Fred; Bibles, Dean; Bisson, Henry

    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona; Las Cienegas National Conservation Area (Ariz.); Real property, Exchange of--Arizona

    • Dean Bibles was the Arizona State Director for Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Henry Bisson was the Phoenix District Manager for BLM, and Fred Baker was a Sonoita area rancher and land and agricultural real estate agent. They describe the...
    • Pete Bernardo Bidegain Oral History Interview

    • Pete Bernardo Bidegain Oral History Interview

    • Bidegain, Pete Bernardo

    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona; Babacomari Ranch (Ariz.)

    • Pete Bernardo Bidegain was born in Flagstaff, Arizona, the son of a Basque sheepherder. He was four or five years old when his family moved to Willcox, Arizona, where they ranched in the Winchester Mountains. Later, the family moved to a ranch on...
    • Henry Dojaquez Oral History Interview

    • Henry Dojaquez Oral History Interview

    • Dojaquez, Henry

    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona

    • Memories of Henry's father, Mike Dojaquez, who worked as a cowboy on the Empire Ranch for the Vails, starting in 1907. Henry Dojaquez also worked on the Empire Ranch for the Boices for a very short period in 1936. He worked on a roundup and...
    • John Donaldson Oral History Interview

    • John Donaldson Oral History Interview

    • Donaldson, John

    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona

    • John Donaldson entered into a joint venture with Anamax Mining Company in 1975 to run cattle on the Empire Ranch. He describes his business relationship with Anamax; his range management techniques, including mesquite removal; and the impact of...
    • Bailey Foster Oral History Interview

    • Bailey Foster Oral History Interview

    • Foster, Bailey

    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona; Slash S Ranch (Ariz.)

    • Recollections of his father working on the Empire Ranch for the Boice family. Bailey also describes his own work on the Cienega Ranch, his work for Bob Boice on the Slash S Ranch in Oracle, and his well-drilling business in Sonoita. This file...
    • Annie Helmericks-Louder Oral History Interview

    • Annie Helmericks-Louder Oral History Interview

    • Helmericks-Louder, Annie

    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona

    • Experiences living on the Empire Ranch from 1969-1975 when married to Steve Boice. This file is an excerpt from the oral history. The full audio file and typewritten transcript are in the collection of the Empire Ranch Foundation. Full length...
    • Norman Hinman Oral History Interview

    • Norman Hinman Oral History Interview

    • Hinman, Norman

    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona

    • Norman Hinman worked as a cowhand for the Boice family for four months (May-August) in 1953. He describes his primary responsibilities as a cowboy (doctoring cattle for screwworms and ensuring that windmills were operating properly); shares his...
    • Laura “Dusty” Vail Ingram Oral History Interview

    • Laura “Dusty” Vail Ingram Oral History Interview

    • Ingram, Laura “Dusty” Vail

    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona

    • Laura “Dusty” Vail Ingram was the granddaughter of Walter and Margaret Vail and the daughter of Laura Perry and their son William Banning Vail, manager of the Empire Ranch from 1913 to 1928. Dusty lived on the Empire Ranch from 1914 to...
    • Mary Dojaquez Jimenez Oral History Interview

    • Mary Dojaquez Jimenez Oral History Interview

    • Jimenez, Mary Dojaquez

    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona

    • Mary Eloisa (Hortense) Dojaquez Jimenez was born on September 27, 1920 in Benson, Arizona. She died on February 24, 2005. She relates that her father, Miguel (Mike) Dojaquez, came to work as a cowboy on the Empire Ranch in 1926, from the...
    • James Kolbe Oral History Interview

    • James Kolbe Oral History Interview

    • Kolbe, James

    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona; Rail X Ranch (Ariz.); Las Cienegas National Conservation Area (Ariz.); Real property, Exchange of--Arizona

    • James (Jim) Kolbe moved to Arizona in 1947 when his parents, Walter and Helen Kolbe, purchased the Rail “X” Ranch, which was originally part of the Empire Ranch. Located between Sonoita and Patagonia the Rail “X” ranch consisted of 500...
    • Gerald Korte Oral History Interview

    • Gerald Korte Oral History Interview

    • Korte, Gerald

    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona

    • Gerald Korte worked and lived as a cowboy on the Empire Ranch for the Boice family from 1946-1949. He was the first president of the Empire Ranch Foundation. This interview discusses splitting up of the ranch among the Boice brothers and other...
    • Martie Maierhauser Oral History Interview

    • Martie Maierhauser Oral History Interview

    • Maierhauser, Martie

    • Cienega Watershed (Ariz.); Colossal Cave (Ariz.); Cienega Corridor Conservation Council; Vail (Ariz.); Cienega Watershed Partnership; Colossal Cave Mountain Park

    • Martie Maierhauser came to Colossal Cave Mountain Park as a tour guide and stayed to become the director. She describes 50 years of efforts with her partner/spouse Joe Maierhauser to preserve the park and surrounding lands near Vail, Arizona, in...

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