Colonel Pfeiffer's Gravesite

Colonel Albert Pfeiffer emigrated from the borderland between the Netherlands and modern Germany to the United States in 1855 and settled in Taos, New Mexico Territory. During that time Pfeiffer was a merchant, Ute Indian agent, and finally an army officer in the New Mexico militia. He fought in a number of Indian campaigns with his friend and commander, Kit Carson. After the Civil War Pfeiffer was mustered out of the army and moved to Rio Grande County in 1866. There he operated a cattle ranch west of present day Del Norte, CO, where his gravesite is located.