Blackwater Draw Frontier Specie — Roosevelt County

Blackwater Draw Locality north of Portales is among North America's most significant Paleoindian archaeological sites, with human occupation spanning millennia. Nineteenth-century buffalo hunters, cavalry patrols, and cattle trails later crossed the same draw country between Clovis and the Caprock. Frontier cache folklore often attaches to ancient waterholes and trail junctions. No authenticated colonial hoard has been documented at the landmark, but regional guides list draw-country strongboxes on the eastern New Mexico plains. Coordinates approximate Blackwater Draw north of Portales in Roosevelt County. Much surrounding land is private ranch property.