A group of cowboys and their horses gathered in an open prairie camp, with two white canvas tents, a wagon, and a cook outfit. Several mounted and standing riders cluster around the remuda of dark horses, while a single white horse stands apart at right. Tucumcari was a railroad town in eastern New Mexico by 1911, and the camp's tents, wagon, and horse herd fit the working cattle country around it.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
Tucumcari
N. M.
Sep 10 1911
Dear Clarence
I arrive here yes
terday for Ben
son Arizona I leave
to night at 7 45
Am & P. S. W & R
R. on W Stree
Chromolithograph with visible halftone dot pattern; light edge and corner wear, no white border. Postmark: TUCUMC[ARI] N. MEX. SEP 11 6 PM (no year in cancel; remainder of town name under stamp). Divided-back card printed in Germany for Harry W. Yaseen, Dalhart, Texas; message dated Sep 10 1911. Corner wear, stamp torn at right edge, light soiling. Address line '9 Count[illegible]' struck through and '1421 Spring Garden Ave' added in pencil below.
Cite this card
Cowboys in camp near Tucumcari, NM, 1911, postcard, c. 1911. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/cowboys-in-camp-near-tucumcari-nm-1911. Accessed November 2, 2026.
