10th Comanchero Rendezvous set for June 8 in Quitaque

Gathering to honor archaeologist Dr. Paul Katz
ARCHEOLOGISTS, HISTORIANS TO GATHER Paul Katz and Rick Day evaluate collections brought in for identification and analysis at a previous gathering at Comanchero Canyons Museum in Quitaque. | KAYLA WHITE PHOTO
ARCHEOLOGISTS, HISTORIANS TO GATHER Paul Katz and Rick Day evaluate collections brought in for identification and analysis at a previous gathering at Comanchero Canyons Museum in Quitaque. | KAYLA WHITE PHOTO

The Comanchero Canyons Museum will host its tenth Rendezvous of friends, donors and guests on Saturday, June 8, 2024, in Quitaque.

Rendezvous is a French fur-traders’ term for gathering or meeting place, but it came to denote a trading destination for New Mexican comancheros and free-ranging Comanches, where whiskey and guns were traded for stolen cattle and horses. Drawing from five counties along…