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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…
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Three miles east of here is one of the most concentrated arrays of petroglyphs in the Southwest. Along a mile-long volcanic ridge are some 21,000 images depicting animals, humans, plants and geometric shapes making it one of very few sites with pu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV00_tularosa_Tularosa-NM.html
The Tularosa Basin has been occupied by Indian groups for thousands of years. The first Hispanic settlers moved here from the Rio Grande Valley in 1862. Anglo settlers and cattlemen began moving into the region in the 1870s. The original 1862 town…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUZ7_three-rivers-petroglyph-site_Tularosa-NM.html
Inhabitants of a nearby village made the Three Rivers Petroglyphs (rock carvings) over 600 years ago. Over 20,000 petrogpyphs have been identified in the area. The people were of the Jornada Mogollon (hor-NAH-da muggy-OWN) prehistoric Indian cultu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUZ5_three-rivers-petroglyphs_Tularosa-NM.html
Three miles to the east is a mile-long array of pictures pecked into the solid rock walls of a volcanic ridge. They include both geometric and animal forms. They were likely made by prehistoric Mogoll?n Indians between ca. A.D. 1000 and 1400.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUZ4_three-rivers_Tularosa-NM.html
Located in the Tularosa Basin east of the great lava flows known as the Malpais, Three Rivers was once prominent in the cattle empires of Albert Bacon Fall, John S. Chisum, and Susie McSween Barber, "the cattle queen of New Mexico." Charles B. Edd…