Cuerno Verde

"[1] His son inherited both the name and the distinctive head dress from the father, who was killed in combat against the Spanish at Ojo Caliente, in what is now New Mexico, in October 1768.

[2] As a young man, Tabivo Naritgant led a series of successful raids into Nuevo Mexico during the mid- to late 1770s.

The Spanish Viceroy in New Spain noticed this threat to them, and offered Juan Bautista de Anza the governorship of Nuevo Mexico with instructions to deal with the various local Indians, including Tavibo Naritgant.

De Anza moved to Nuevo Mexico and assumed the Governorship and for a year, studied past expeditions against and encounters with Cuerno Verde.

A year later, in August 1779, de Anza led a mixed force of 500 to 800 Spanish troops and Ute, Apache, and Pueblo auxiliaries on a punitive expedition against the Comanche.

Cuerno Verde marker at Greenhorn Meadows Park on Colorado Highway 165 by Rye, Colorad. The Greenhorn Mountain and Greenhorn creek is named after him. He was killed along the creek just east of Rye, Colorado.