Mosquero, Harding County Seat
Around 1906 the EP&NE Railroad designated Mosquero as a water stop, and with the railroad came land-hungry immigrants. Benjamin Brown, a lawyer and real estate agent, organized the Mosquero Land Company, named for nearby Mosquero Creek, and began selling tracts. In July 1908 he laid out a townsite, and in September he constructed a hotel near the siding. Mosquero, as the new town was called, became the largest settlement in Harding County.
Mosquero Creek is east of Mosquero and flows southeast to join Ute Creek. The name probably derives from the Spanish "flytrap" or "swarm of flies."
Bueyeros
Travel 29 miles north of Mosquero on Hwy 102 to the little settlement of Bueyeros. Around 1879, several Hispanic settlers brought cattle here. Some were oxen drivers, or "bueyeros." At first the settlement was called Vigil, because the Vigil brothers ran cattle there, but it was later called Bueyeros. The unusual Catholic church at Bueyeros boasts a French style of architecture.
