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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM287M_comanche-country_Tucumcari-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/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/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/HM1HX3_tucumcari_Tucumcari-NM.html
This area was troubled by both Comanches and Comancheros, New Mexicans who traded illegally with the Indians, until the military campaigns of 1874. With the coming of the railroad in 1898, the small community of Liberty, eight miles to the north, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HX2_tucumcari-mountain_Tucumcari-NM.html
Tucumcari Mountain has long been a landmark for travelers along the Canadian River. Pathfinder Pedro Vial mentioned it in 1793, while opening a trail between Santa Fe and St. Louis. In order to find the best route from Arkansas to California, Capt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HX1_tucumcari-mountain_Tucumcari-NM.html
Tucumcari Mountain has long been a landmark for travelers along the Canadian River. Pathfinder Pedro Vial mentioned it in 1793, while opening a trail between Santa Fe and St. Louis. In order to find the best route from Arkansas to California, Capt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HX0_yetta-kohn-1843-1917_Tucumcari-NM.html
Born in Bavaria and widowed in Las Vegas, New Mexico, Yetta ran the family store and raised four children alone. She later moved to La Cinta on the Canadian River where she opened another store, became postmistress, started a bank and operated a f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HTP_townsite-of-obar_Nara-Visa-NM.html
Founded in 1906 and at one time had a couple dozen buildings with all types of business found in early western towns including a newspaper called Obar Progress.
A partial list of the several hundred pioneer families who homesteaded in the Obar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HTO_nara-visa_Nara-Visa-NM.html
The area is rich in prehistoric evidence, and home of the buffalo and Plains Indians. Explored by the early Spanish, the area was settled when the Rock Island Railroad was built thru in 1901.
The brick building, built in 1921, was home for a fine…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM175I_fort-bascom_Tucumcari-NM.html
Built under Brigadier General James H. Carleton. Firt Post Commander Captain Peter W.L. Plympton with Company F, 7th U.S. Infantry and Company 1st New Mexico Volunteer Cavalry. Named after Captain George N. Bascom, 16th U.S. Infantry. Officers qua…