<body><div>TUCUMCARI, N.M. (KFDA) - Tucumcari got its start as a tent city in 1901 when the railroad made its way through the area.From there, its history expanded with major historical figures making their way through this town.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4Xzt0m_137d8sfY00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4Xzt0m_137d8sfY00" width="1200" height="800" ></figure>Tucumcari MainStreet offers a step back in time into Tucumcari’s wild west past and how it came to be, with its famous founder, Alex Street.“Tucumcari came about because there used to be a little town called Liberty, and it was three miles north of here. And it was like your typical little town, you know, it had like a general store, a bunch of bars, stuff like that,” said Annie McCauley, guide on the History Alive Walks. “And the rumor is that some railroad men came into town and were in the area looking around, wouldn’t tell anybody why they were there.”Officials say the townspeople and some of the business owners decided to bribe the railroaders with alcohol to get them to tell them why they were there.McCauley says the business owners told them that the railroad was coming to this area because it wasn’t here yet.They gathered up the land where they put their businesses, so that they could be where the railroad was.Alex Street became one of the town’s founding fathers, and he went on to become pretty famous.“He was a founding father in the early nineteen hundreds and was a sheriff for several years, was even a mayor in Tucumcari. Everyone noticed his amazing skills as a sheriff and a detective, as an old frontier detective,” said Laura Love, board member of Tucumcari MainStreet. One of Street’s early cases was actually working on the Osage murders in Oklahoma, and he was one of the undercover investigators that, he played a cowboy and a rancher.“Story goes — and there is a news, there is a little news article back in the nineteen thirties that came out that when he was doing his investigations — that he got William Hale, who was one of the ones that was indicted for the murders and planning all of these Osage murders, and he got him to confess over a steak dinner," said Love.There’s a lot of unknown history, but fascinating history that you can discover here at the depot as well as other local area museums.Love says the Tucumcari Historical Museum, the depot, and others will have lots of stories that you can find that.The Tucumcari Historical Museum is located at 416 S. Adams St. The Tucumcari Depot is located at 101 E. Railroad Ave. </div></body>

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TUCUMCARI, N.M. (KFDA) - Tucumcari got its start as a tent city in 1901 when the railroad made its way through the area. From there, its history expanded with major historical figures making their way through this town. Tucumcari MainStreet offers a step back in time into Tucumcari’s wild west...

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Tucumcari highlights storied history

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