If you travel north from Santa Fe, New Mexico you would reach Denver, Colorado first
Spain and Portugal.
The Treaty of Tordesillas<span>, (June 7, 1494), agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers was ignored which caused the conflickt.</span>
Keeping in mind the description of the stone point given in the story, we can state Marshall the rancher was looking at a Folsom point.
As it's known, a Folsom is a kind of stone point with a leaf-like shape which has a concave base and wide, shallow grooves/flutes running almost the entire length of the point.