A company of rangers is attacked by Caddos near the Falls of the Brazos, near present-day Bucksnort. One Texas, James Coryell, is killed.
Date: May 11, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.252160000000
Longitude: -96.919180000000
Longitude: -96.919180000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:32.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 250-52.
Event Type:
Date: May 16, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kickapoos, Shawnees, Delawares, Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Daniel Montague and 17 Texans attack a band of Kickapoos, Shawnees, Delawares, and Cherokees near Warren. Several Indians are killed.
Tribe: Kickapoos, Shawnees, Delawares, Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.613189000000
Longitude: -94.399512000000
Longitude: -94.399512000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:219.
Rex Wallace Strickland, “History of Fannin County, Texas, 1836-1843,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 33, no. 4 (April 1930): 287-288.
Event Type:
Date: Early June 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of Caddos kill a woman and a boy, fifteen miles from Washington.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 30.342535000000
Longitude: -96.331543000000
Longitude: -96.331543000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, June 13, 1837.
Event Type:
Date: Early August 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Tonkawas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) One Texan (Jackson M. Parker) is shot and killed by Tonkawas on the Nueces River while gathering cattle for the army.
Tribe: Tonkawas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.375880000000
Longitude: -98.363772000000
Longitude: -98.363772000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, August 22, 1837
Event Type:
Date: Early August 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Two Anglos (Ross and Stevens) are reported killed near Goliad, possibly by Lipan Apaches.
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.674973000000
Longitude: -97.410150000000
Longitude: -97.410150000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, August 19, 1837.
Event Type:
Date: October 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos, Wichitas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American One Texan (Lyons) is killed, and horses stolen near the headwaters of the Navidad River, 12 miles south of LaGrange. Caddos and Wichitas are suspected.
Tribe: Caddos, Wichitas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.619647000000
Longitude: -96.892436000000
Longitude: -96.892436000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, October 28, 1837
Event Type:
Date: Fall 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Two men are killed by Indians in front of a church during Sunday services in Nashville, five miles northeast of present-day Gause.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.819201000000
Longitude: -96.671545000000
Longitude: -96.671545000000
Citation:
Z. N. Morrell, Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness: or, Thirty-Six Years in Texas and Two Winters in Honduras (Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1872), 69.
Event Type:
Date: October 14, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos, Caddos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of 30 Indians chase three men for three miles along the Colorado River near Fort Mina (at Alum Creek, four miles southeast of Bastrop). One man, Joseph Rogers, is killed. Caddos and Wacos (Wichitas) are suspected.
Tribe: Wacos, Caddos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.056652000000
Longitude: -97.219081000000
Longitude: -97.219081000000
Citation:
J. D. Morris, “Indian Depredations,” Telegraph and Texas Register, November 18, 1837.
Date: Mid-October 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos, Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Residents of Bastrop pursue Indians believed to be Caddos and Wacos (Wichitas) suspected in recent theft of herds of horses and cattle. Two or three Indians are killed.
Tribe: Caddos, Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.078587000000
Longitude: -97.296836000000
Longitude: -97.296836000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, October 28, 1837.
Event Type:
Date: Early November 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Towards the end of a two-month campaign into North Texas to retrieve horses stolen from settlements along the Colorado River, William Eastland and 24 Texans encounter a party of 200 Comanches at Red Bayou, four miles northwest of present-day New Boston.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.489270000000
Longitude: -94.469053000000
Longitude: -94.469053000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:33.
Event Type:
Date: November 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) McCullom, a blacksmith, and the son of James Rogers are attacked by Indians, probably Comanches, while cutting trees near Wilbarger Creek, five miles southwest of present-day Elgin. McCullom is killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.298357000000
Longitude: -97.450411000000
Longitude: -97.450411000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 238.
Event Type:
Date: November 3, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Lieutenant A. B. Van Benthuysen and 18 Texas Rangers encounter a party of Cherokees led by several Kichai (Wichita) scouts en route to trade with the Comanches near the forks of the Brazos River (the confluence of Salt Fork and Double Mountain Fork), 50 miles west of present-day Throckmorton.
Tribe: Kichais, Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.267895000000
Longitude: -99.999832000000
Longitude: -99.999832000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:267-68.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 143.
Event Type:
Date: November 10, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos, Toweash
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Ten miles south of present-day Windthorst, a party of 18 Texas rangers led by Lieutenant A. B. Van Benthuysen intercept a mixed band of Kichais (Wichita), Toweash and Waco (Wichita) numbering between 150 and 180. Ten rangers and 40 Indians are reported killed.
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos, Toweash
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.576216000000
Longitude: -98.436719000000
Longitude: -98.436719000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002) 1:268-281.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 142-43.
Telegraph and Texas Register, December 23, 1837.
Telegraph and Texas Register, February 3, 1838.
Telegraph and Texas Register, March 17, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: Winter 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Four members of the Crooker family are killed by Caddos near Fort Inglish (present day Bonham). An infant survives.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 33.578659000000
Longitude: -96.183914000000
Longitude: -96.183914000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 15:488-89.
Event Type:
Date: Winter 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of Anglo Texans kill four Caddos suspected in the murder of the Crooker family, near Fort Inglish (present-day Bonham).
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 33.582394000000
Longitude: -96.195556000000
Longitude: -96.195556000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 15:488-89.
Event Type:
Date: December 4, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American Laredo civic militia pursues a Comanche raiding party, recovering stolen mules and killing four Indians.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.569837000000
Longitude: -99.560567000000
Longitude: -99.560567000000
Citation:
Wood, Robert D. Archivos de Laredo: Index to the Municipal Correspondence 1825-1845, 10.
Event Type:
Date: Early 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Stillman S. Curtis, a surveyor, is killed and his horse stolen by Indians near the Little River, three miles north of present-day Gause.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.836744000000
Longitude: -96.714001000000
Longitude: -96.714001000000
Citation:
George B. Erath, The Memoirs of Major George B. Erath: as Dictated to Lucy A. Erath (Waco: The Heritage Society of Waco, 1956), 56.
Event Type:
Date: 1838 n.d.
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Lawler, Howard and several other citizens of Refugio are killed by Comanches.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.314205000000
Longitude: -97.270216000000
Longitude: -97.270216000000
Citation:
Hobart Huson, Refugio: A Comprehensive History of Refugio County from Aboriginal Times to 1953 (Woodsboro, TX: The Rooke Foundation, Inc., 1953), 434.
Event Type:
Date: January 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Indians, probably Comanches, in the process of stealing horses, kill John Eagleston on the streets of Bastrop.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.112855000000
Longitude: -97.310966000000
Longitude: -97.310966000000
Citation:
Wilbarger, John Wesley. Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co.,1935), 88.
Event Type:
Date: Early 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Two settlers (Hart and Weaver) are killed by Indians, probably Comanches, in a nighttime raid of Bastrop.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.099751000000
Longitude: -97.293741000000
Longitude: -97.293741000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas. (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 107.
Event Type: