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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RKC_comanche-country_Cuervo-NM.html
By 1700 the Comanches had acquired the horse and began moving into this area. They drove out the Jicarilla Apaches, and their raids on New Mexico's eastern frontier posed a threat to Indian, Spanish and Anglo settlements for over a century. The Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R6K_llano-estacado_Cuervo-NM.html
Rising above these red-earth lowlands to the south is the Llano Estacado or Staked Plain, a high plateau covering some 32,000 square miles in eastern New Mexico and adjacent areas in Texas. Topographically, it is one of the flattest areas in the U…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R6B_fort-bascom_Tucumcari-NM.html
Fort Bascom was built to protect this area from Comanches. In 1864, Kit Carson led a campaign against the Comanches, as did General Philip Sheridan in 1868. The fort was also established to control the Comancheros, New Mexicans involved in illegal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R6A_black-jack-ketchum_Tucumcari-NM.html
The last of the train robbers, Black Jack Ketchum, who terrorized the railroads in the 1880's killed two men near this spot and hid out in a cave near Saddleback Mesa to the Southwest. The swarthy bandit was wounded in his last robbery and hanged …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QXH_salt-mission-trail_Mountainair-NM.html
Located 10 miles from the center of the state, this high desert town was established in 1902. Ancient cities, pinto beans and ranching make its history. The railroad, natural beauty, Salinas Pueblo cultures and a pioneering spirit are reflected in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PMR_llano-estacado_San-Jon-NM.html
Sediments shed from the rising mountains to the west formed the Llano Estacado, later to be bypassed by streams such as the Pecos and Canadian Rivers and left standing in bold relief with a relatively level, uneroded caprock surface. Croplands on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PMQ_santa-rosa_Santa-Rosa-NM.html
The Spanish explorer Antonio de Espejo passed through this area in 1583, as did Gaspar Castaño de Sosa in 1590. Santa Rosa, the Guadalupe County seat, was laid out on the ranch of Celso Baca y Baca, a politician and rancher in the late 1800s. It …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PMO_trail-of-the-forty-niners_Santa-Rosa-NM.html
To give gold-seekers another route to California, Capt. Randolph B. Marcy and Lt. James H. Simpson opened a wagon road from Arkansas to New Mexico in 1849. Marcy's Road, although very popular with the Forty-Niners, still was never as well-traveled…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PMN_edge-of-plains_Santa-Rosa-NM.html
Grassy plains meet pine dotted uplands in this transition from Great Plains to Basin and Range provinces. Plains to the east are capped by caliche, sand, and gravel which are deeply eroded into the underlying bedrock in places. To the west, faulti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PM7_three-rivers_Tularosa-NM.html
Located in the Tularosa Basin at the turn-off for Three Rivers Petroglyphs, this ranching village settled in the early 1870's took its name for a nearby convergence of three creeks. The cattle empires of Albert Bacon Fall, John Chisum, and Susan M…