Reserve / Glenwood
Photos above: Historic Mogollon, top left and right; Snow Lake, lower left; Datil, lower right. Below: Glenwood fish hatchery, Elefgo Baca Memorial
Catron County's secret is its blend of crisp mountain air, clear mountain streams, rugged slopes, narrow canyons, tranquil lakes and forests.
1870's homesteaders and cattlemen battled fierce Apache Indians to settle in Catron County; today livestock production is the leading industry.
Reserve - The frontier community of Reserve is the largest town in the county and serves as the county seat. Reserve is surrounded by the Gila National Forest and was formally known as "Frisco." It has an upper, middle and lower San Francisco Plaza. This village is remembered for the famous gunfight that features lawman Elfego Baca versus a crowd of rowdy cowboys. Baca held off eighty cowboys for over 30 hours
While stationed at Ft. Tularosa (site of today's Aragon), where Geronimo and his Apaches were held, two soldiers were quick to see the opportunities offered by the fields, valleys and mountains as pasturage. They made the first settlement in the upper plaza in 1874 and established sheep ranches.
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Reserve is the center of cow country. It is the center for big game hunters and archeological explorers. There are sunny pine-aromatic park places with horseback trails to high plateaus with wide-sweeping vistas.
About the Elfego Baca Memorial
“I will show the Texans that there is at least one Mexican in this country who is not afraid of an American cowboy.”
In
October 1884, eighty Texan cowboys came to wreak havoc on the sleepy
little Hispanic community of Frisco. One man, 19-year-old Elfego Baca,
singehandedly subdued the cowboys in a 3-day shoot-out with more than
4,000 bullets shot
and changed the course of history.
Sculpture by James Muir
For more information please contact Henry Martinez 575-533-6488 or 575-533-6324 or Lupe Baca Rodrigues 55-804-3873
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Catron County Chamber of Commerce
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Glenwood Chamber of Commerce
Glenwood, NM 88039
(575) 539-2711
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