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    • 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.
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Mary Vail Wilkinson Oral History Interview

    • Mary Vail Wilkinson Oral History Interview

    • Wilkinson, Mary Vail

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

    • Mary shares remembrances of her life as a child on the Empire Ranch. Born in 1887, Mary Vail was Walter and Margaret Vail's daughter and lived at the Empire Ranch until the Vail family moved to Los Angeles in 1896. This file is an excerpt from...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Karen Simms Oral History Interview

    • Karen Simms Oral History Interview

    • Simms, Karen

    • Cienega Watershed (Ariz.); Bureau of Land Management; Land Use--Planning; Donaldson, John; Fish

    • An interview of Karen Simms, who has lived and worked on Las Cienegas National Conservation Area for 23 years. She began as a field biologist and became an ecologist and land use planner for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Karen describes how...
    • 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...
    • Jim Van Auken Oral History Interview

    • Jim Van Auken Oral History Interview

    • Van Auken, Jim

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

    • Jim Van Auken was an Arizona livestock inspector (1953-1983) who inspected the last Boice Empire Ranch cattle and inspected Donaldson cattle at the Empire and on John Donaldson's Tortuga ranch. He describes the role of a livestock inspector and his...
    • 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...
    • Jeff Williamson Oral History Interview

    • Jeff Williamson Oral History Interview

    • Williamson, Jeff

    • Cienega Watershed (Ariz.); conservation of natural resources; Adaptive management (Environmental Management); Donaldson, John; Seidman, Mike

    • An interview of Jeff Williamson, Senior Conservationist with the Phoenix Zoo, who has logged in thousands of miles to conserve the Cienega Watershed. As director of the Arizona Zoological Society/Phoenix Zoo, Jeff brought together scientists,...
    • James Pickrell Oral History Interview

    • James Pickrell Oral History Interview

    • Pickrell, James

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

    • Dr. James Pickrell is a veterinarian who worked for the Boice family at the Empire Ranch. Jim went to high school with Pancho and Bob Boice. His first involvement with the Empire Ranch as a veterinarian was when the foreman, Fred Barnett, asked...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...

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