Roosevelt County history and heritage
Edited by Jean M. Burroughs, Temple Padon, and Pearce Grove
- Portales, NM Bishop Print Company 1975
- 361 p
Over 11,000 years ago the area now known as Roosevelt County, located on the Llano Estacado also known as the High Plains, in easter New Mexico, was the home of the Paleo-Indian Culture at Blackwater Draw. These people represent the oldest widely accepted Paleo-Indian culture located in the New World. Roosevelt County, New Mexico was formed February 28, 1903, It was named for the twenty-sixth President of the United U.S., Theodore Roossevelt.
--Roosevelt County (N.M.)--Portales (N.M.)
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Over 11,000 years ago the area now known as Roosevelt County, located on the Llano Estacado also known as the High Plains, in easter New Mexico, was the home of the Paleo-Indian Culture at Blackwater Draw. These people represent the oldest widely accepted Paleo-Indian culture located in the New World. Roosevelt County, New Mexico was formed February 28, 1903, It was named for the twenty-sixth President of the United U.S., Theodore Roossevelt.
--Roosevelt County (N.M.)--Portales (N.M.)
978.932 Roo 48