Fischers Peak. Raton Peak was sometimes called Cimarron by early writer was rechristened on military maps, Fisher's Peak for Capt. Waldeman Fischer of Kearneys Staff. Settlers refused to conform to the naming. Early Life in Trinidad & The Purgatory Valley by H.D. Smith p.28 Shown, with original spelling, on early maps: Kern's map of New Mexico (1851) and the U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers map of Western U.S. (1850). WHD map file
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