Alison Bunting: The Empire Ranch-the trip from the Colorado River to Tucson

By Alison Bunting Last month’s article described Walter Vail and Herbert Hislop’s trip from Los Angeles to the Arizona Territory border, crossing the Colorado River near Blythe, CA. The next phase of the journey took four days in early July of 1876. On the Arizona side of the Colorado was the community of Ehrenberg, the next…