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The Navajo County Sheriff office, also known as the "Home of the Hashknife gang posse". The structure was built in 1882 and is located on 205 Joy Nevin Ave. The Aztec Land and Cattle Company was created in 1884. The company employed cowboys and many of them were criminal fugitives from other states.
Aztec Land and Cattle Company, Limited ("Aztec") is a land company with a historic presence in Arizona. It was formed in 1884 and incorporated in early 1885 as a cattle ranching operation that purchased 1,000,000 acres in northern Arizona from the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad. It then imported approximately 32,000 head of cattle from Texas and ...
The firm made another large deal in August 1910 when they purchased the Hopen Land and Cattle Company near Pinedale in Navajo County for an estimated $100,000. [20] The company continued to expand over the next few years, including the purchase of the large cattle property of Joe Rudy in the Skull Valley area in March 1911. [21]
All land was purchased from the Aztec Land and Cattle Company. Water was in short supply and the soil was rocky. Owning water rights to various draws was essential for survival. At this time, Zeniff consisted primarily of single room adobe cabins and frame houses. Dry farming and cattle ranching were the primary way of life.
A federal board has sided with one of the largest coal producers in the United States in a contract dispute with a major freight railroad, ordering BNSF Railway to transport at least 4.2 million ...
The Navajo County Sheriff's Office says 38-year-old Joseph Gibbons was arrested after multiple cattle were found shot and killed in Snowflake. Arizona man accused of killing 22 cattle in Snowflake ...
Arizona's economy historically relied on the "five C's": copper, cotton, cattle, citrus, and climate. [3] While Arizona's copper mining is still the nation's primary source of the metal, services and manufacturing are now the drivers of the state's economy.
There was an important Navajo leader named totsohnii Hastiin (pronounced Toe-so-knee haaus-teen) (Navajo for "man of the big water clan"). He was also called Ganado Mucho (pronounced gah-nah-doe-moo-cho) (Spanish for "many cattle") and Mr. Hubbell renamed this place Ganado for him. Ganado Mucho had a son, Many Horses, who is buried on the property.