Trees

The house is still there, but not the trees.

Thu, Mar 15, 1917 – Page 1 · The Tucumcari News and Tucumcari Times (Tucumcari, New Mexico) · Newspapers.com

Chief of the Pastores Casimiro Romero

Just northeast of the New Mexico line on U.S. 54

 "Moved to Texas, 1876, from New Mexico-- wife and two children in a coach, goods in 14 wagons. Owned 6,000 sheep. A Castilian Spaniard by birth, Romero spoke for pastores (sheep herders), who built eleven haciendas and plazas in Canadian River area. Cattle rancher Chas. Goodnight in late 1876 made a pact with Romero to respect right of the pastores to valley of Canadian River. But, railroads and cattle ranches in 1880s cut into sheep lands. Romero returned to New Mexico, selling Texas lands, 1897. He is memorialized in this area by town of Romero (3.5 miles southwest of here)." Romero spent his last years ranching sheep on a couple of quarter sections near Bard, New Mexico. He is buried in an unmarked grave in the Endee Cemetery.

First Battle of Adobe Walls

Kit Carson

(Wikipedia) The First Battle of Adobe Walls was a battle between the United States Army and American Indians. The Kiowa, Comanche and Plains Apache (Kiowa Apache) tribes drove from the battlefield a United States Expeditionary Force that was reacting to attacks on white settlers moving into the Southwest. The battle, on November 25, 1864, resulted in light casualties on both sides but was one of the largest engagements fought on the Great Plains.
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Cavalry column launched against Panhandle Indians

 

Fort Bascom Ruins c1907

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1868, the Canadian River Expedition was launched as part of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan's winter campaign against the Indians of the southern plains. Maj. Andrew Evans left Fort Bascom, New Mexico, with more than 500 officers and men.
Following the left bank of the Canadian, the column encountered a blizzard two days later, but despite deep snow, sleet, and freezing temperatures the troops trudged their way over the Fort Smith-Santa Fe route across the Panhandle and established a supply depot probably in what is now Hemphill County, Texas. Continued