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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11IT_black-jack-ketchum_Clayton-NM.html
Thomas "Black Jack" Ketchum, leader of a notorious band of train robbers, was wounded in August 1899 while trying to rob a train near Folsom. He surrendered the next day. He was tried and convicted under a law making train robbery a capital offens…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11D4_santa-fe-trail-cimarron-cutoff-clayton_Clayton-NM.html
This is a two sided markerSide A:Santa Fe TrailCimarron CutoffThe Santa Fe Trail was the major trade route between New Mexico and Missouri from 1821 until arrival of the railroad in 1880. The Cimarron Cutoff, a major branch of the Trail, passed th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11D3_santa-fe-trail_Clayton-NM.html
This is a two sided markerSide A:William Bucknell, the first Santa Fe Trail trader, entered Santa Fe in 1821 after Mexico became independent from Spain and opened its frontier to foreign traders. The Mountain Branch over Raton Pass divided here. O…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11D2_clayton-dinosaur-trackway_Clayton-NM.html
One of the best dinosaur track sites in the world can be viewed at Clayton Lake State Park. More than 500 fossilized footprints, made by at least eight kinds of dinosaurs, are visible on the lake's spillway. These tracks were embedded in the mud o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11CP_rabbit-ear-mountain_Clayton-NM.html
These two striking mounds were the first features to become visible to Santa Fe Trail traffic crossing into New Mexico from Oklahoma, and so became important landmarks for caravans. From here, traffic on this major 19th century commercial route st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11CO_clayton_Clayton-NM.html
Trade caravans and homesteaders traveling the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail passed near here. Clayton was founded in 1887 and named for the son of cattleman and ex-Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, one of its developers. It became a major livesto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11CN_rabbit-ear-mountain_Clayton-NM.html
These two striking mounds were the first features to become visible to Santa Fe Trail traffic crossing into New Mexico from Oklahoma, and so became important landmarks for caravans. From here, traffic on this major 19th century commercial route st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11CF_clayton_Clayton-NM.html
Trade caravans and homesteaders traveling the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail passed near here. Clayton was founded in 1887 and named for the son of cattleman and ex-Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, one of its developers. It became a major livesto…