Details - Chief of the Pastores Casimiro Romero - Atlas Number 5205000827

Marker Number	827
Atlas Number	5205000827
Marker Title	Chief of the Pastores Casimiro Romero
Index Entry	Romero, Casimiro
Address	US 54
City	Dalhart
County	Hartley
UTM Zone	13
UTM Easting	691388
UTM Northing	3959235
Subject Codes	ranches/ranching; pioneers; Hispanic topics
Marker Year	1970
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark	No
Marker Location	Romero community, picnic area W side of US 54, 3 mi. NE of FM 3296. Marker reported damaged Nov. 2015.
Private Property	No
Marker Condition
Marker Size	28" x 18"
Marker Text	(1833 - 1912) Moved to Texas, 1876, from New Mexico-- wife and two children in a coach, goods in 14 wagons. Owned 6,000 sheep. A Castilian Spaniard by birth, Romero spoke for pastores (sheep herders), who built eleven haciendas and plazas in Canadian River area. Cattle rancher Chas. Goodnight in late 1876 made a pact with Romero to respect right of the pastores to valley of Canadian River. But, railroads and cattle ranches in 1880s cut into sheep lands. Romero returned to New Mexico, selling Texas lands, 1897. He is memorialized in this area by town of Romero (3.5 mi. SW of here). (1970)