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• Collection: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

• Title: Faraway Ranch, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ
• Other Title: Chiricahua National Monument
• Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
• Related Names:
     Erickson, Neil
     Erickson, Emma
     Erickson, Ben
     Erickson, Lilliana
     Erickson, Hidegard
     Riggs, Ed
     Powers, Anna Marie
     Glass, James A. , field team
     Andrews, Deborah , field team
     LaFond, Michael A. , field team
     Towner, Joseph F. , project manager
     Baer, Marjorie E. , project manager
     Huston, Ann , transmitter
     Frear, Richard K. , photographer
     Dunn, George , photographer
     Cardozo, Russell Wilcox , delineator
• Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
• Medium: Photo(s): 30
  Measured Drawing(s): 1
  Photo Caption Page(s): 3
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
  
• Call Number: HABS ARIZ,2-WILCO.V,1-
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • See also HALS AZ-10 for additional documentation.
  • Significance: The Faraway Ranch occupies 320 acres within Chiricahua National Monument in Southeastern Arizona. Of greatest importance among the ranch buildings are the Erickson-Riggs Ranch House and the Stafford-Riggs Cabin. There are eight other buildings and structures on the property that were part of the ranch operation. The ranch was originally homesteaded by Neil and Emma Erickson. Neil Erickson, a self-taught carpenter and builder, erected the ranch house in three major stages. The resulting house was unusual in its mixture of vernacular adobe brick construction and wood framing techniques and decorative details imported from the eastern United States. In 1923 to 1924 the ranch was the center of efforts by Ed and Lillian Riggs, son in law and daughter of the Ericksons, to have the nearby "Wonderland of Rocks," proclaimed Chiricahua National Monument. The ranch also became the headquarters after 1917 for one of the leading guest ranches in the southeastern Arizona region. Operated by the Riggs until Ed Riggs death in 1950 and by Lillian Riggs alone until the early 1970's, the guest ranch hosted countless excursions by "dudes" into the Monument and on cattle round-ups on the range. Jay Hugh Stafford, one of the first settlers in the region, built the Stafford-Riggs Cabin beginning in 1880. Stafford established a large fruit orchard west of his cabin and built one of the early irrigation systems in the area. The cabin is one of the oldest surviving log cabins in southeastern Arizona. The Faraway Ranch property was acquired by the National Park Service in 1972 and 1978. Restoration of the ranch buildings is planned following completion of a historic structures report.
  • Survey number: HABS AZ-139
• Subjects:
  • ranches
  • cowboys
  • domestic life
  • cattle industry
  • homesteading
• Place:
  • Arizona--Cochise County--Willcox
• Latitude/Longitude: 32.00806, -109.3716
• Collections:
  • Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
• Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: HABS ARIZ,2-WILCO.V,1-
• Medium: Photo(s): 30
  Measured Drawing(s): 1
  Photo Caption Page(s): 3

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• Call Number: HABS ARIZ,2-WILCO.V,1-
• Medium: Photo(s): 30
  Measured Drawing(s): 1
  Photo Caption Page(s): 3

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