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Near Eagar in Apache County, Arizona — The American Mountains (Southwest)
 

26 Bar Hereford Ranch

 
 
26 Bar Hereford Ranch Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Bill Kirchner, September 24, 2010
1. 26 Bar Hereford Ranch Marker
Inscription. Once owned & often visited by film legend John Wayne, the ranch with the prominent white show barn came to fame in the 1940s as the Milky Way Hereford Ranch, owned by the Mars Candy Family.
 
Erected 2002 by Round Valley Positive Action Tourism Committee and Springerville-Eagar Chamber of Commerce. (Marker Number 8.)
 
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Notable Places. In addition, it is included in the Arizona, Pistols, Plows and Petticoats Historic Driving Tour series list.
 
Location. 34° 6.562′ N, 109° 19.555′ W. Marker is near Eagar, Arizona, in Apache County. Marker is at the intersection of School Bus Road and West Central Avenue (Arizona Route 260), on the right when traveling south on School Bus Road. Marker is about 150 feet south of West Central Avenue. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Eagar AZ 85925, United States of America. Touch for directions.
 
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Colter Ranch (within shouting distance of this marker); Amity School (approx. 0.7 miles away); Old Grist Mill Site (approx. 1.2 miles away); Snyder-Cavanaugh Shoot Out (approx. 1.2 miles away); Eagar Elementary School (approx.
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2 miles away); Oscar Jepson Home (approx. 2 miles away); Harry Colter Home (approx. 2 miles away); Joseph Udall Barn (approx. 2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Eagar.
 
More about this marker. This is Marker Stop #8 on the Pistols, Plows and Petticoats Historic Driving Tour.
 
Regarding 26 Bar Hereford Ranch. After retiring from the U.S. Forest Service around 1914, D.C. Martin moved his family into a three-room frame house purchased from John C. Hall. He farmed using water from the Amity Ditch and raised cattle along the nearby Little Colorado River. His wife Edith, who taught at the nearby Amity School, reared her family here for nearly thirty years. They sold the farm in 1941.

The small farm became the nucleus in the 1940’s of the famous Milky Way Hereford Ranch owned and developed by Alan Feeney and his wife, who were from the Mars Candy family. They named it for their popular candy bar.

In 1964 John Wayne, the movie star, bought the Milky Way along with 930 acres of the adjacent Colter’s Cross Bar Ranch. He formed the 26 Bar Hereford Ranch. Wayne and his partners added additional acreage
26 Bar Hereford Ranch Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Bill Kirchner, September 24, 2010
2. 26 Bar Hereford Ranch Marker
and purchased bulls and cows from registered herds in California, Wyoming and Arizona.

The original D.C. Martin house is no longer standing, and after Wayne’s death the ranch was sold Tom Chauncey who carried on the proud tradition. Following Chauncey’s death the ranch was sold to the Hopi Tribe who converted the headquarters into a Bed & Breakfast and continue to graze Hereford cattle on the 64,000 acres of prime Arizona ranch land.
Source: Pistols, Plows and Petticoats Historic Driving Tour Brochure.
 
26 Bar Hereford Ranch image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Bill Kirchner, September 24, 2010
3. 26 Bar Hereford Ranch
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on October 5, 2010, by Bill Kirchner of Tucson, Arizona. This page has been viewed 9,554 times since then and 589 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on October 5, 2010, by Bill Kirchner of Tucson, Arizona. • Syd Whittle was the editor who published this page.

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