In the first major battle of the Red River War, six hundred U.S. soldiers under the command of Nelson A Miles engage roughly the same number of Kiowas and Comanches in a running battle along Mulberry Creek, about seventeen miles south of present-day Clarendon. Seventeen Indians are killed.
Date: August 30, 1874
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Kiowas, Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Tribe: Kiowas, Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 34.705662000000
Longitude: -100.896241000000
Longitude: -100.896241000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 282.
Event Type:
Date: September 7, 1874
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Kiowas, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Four U.S. soldiers encounter an unknown number of Kiowa and Comanche Indians on Whitefish Creek in northeast Donley County. A skirmish ensues in which at least eight Indians are killed or wounded.
Tribe: Kiowas, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 35.059230000000
Longitude: -100.606092000000
Longitude: -100.606092000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno and Susan J. Michno, Forgotten Fights: Little-Known Raids and Skirmishes on the Frontier, 1823 to 1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2008), 294-295.
Event Type:
Date: September 9-12, 1874
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Kiowas, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White More than 400 Kiowas and Comanches attack a wagon train on the Upper Washita River, on the eastern edge of the Panhandle, forty-seven miles east of present-day Pampa. The Indians lay siege to the train, guarded by more than one hundred U.S. troops, for four days before retreating.
Tribe: Kiowas, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 35.720791000000
Longitude: -100.153501000000
Longitude: -100.153501000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 282-284.
Event Type:
Date: September 12, 1874
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Kiowas, Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Four U.S. soldiers and two civilian scouts are surrounded by 100 Kiowas and Comanches near the junction of Gageby Creek and the Upper Washita River. They take refuge in a shallow buffalo wallow, holding off the Indians for more than 24 hours. The Indians wound four of the six men, one mortally.
Tribe: Kiowas, Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 35.708066000000
Longitude: -100.127494000000
Longitude: -100.127494000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 284.
Handbook of Texas Online, H. Allen Anderson, "BUFFALO WALLOW FIGHT," accessed August 20, 2018,http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/btb03.
Event Type:
Date: September 12, 1874
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Kiowas, Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Two hundred U.S. troops led by Maj. William R. Price encounter four hundred Kiowas and Comanches between Sweetwater Creek and the Dry Fork of the Washita River. A brief skirmish ensues in which two Indians are killed and six others are wounded.
Tribe: Kiowas, Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 35.707981000000
Longitude: -100.157615000000
Longitude: -100.157615000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 284-285.
Event Type:
Date: September 25-27, 1874
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male, unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White U.S. soldiers attack Kiowas gathered at Tule Creek. They kill fifteen warriors, including the Kiowa chief Woman Heart.
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male, unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 34.522570000000
Longitude: -101.484721000000
Longitude: -101.484721000000
Citation:
Handbook of Texas Online, Donald R. Abbe and H. Allen Anderson, "BRISCOE COUNTY," accessed August 20, 2018,http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hcb15.
Robert G. Carter, On the Border with Mackenzie: or, Winning West Texas (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2011), 485-487.
Event Type:
Date: November 18, 1874
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A sixteen-man detachment of Texas Rangers led by Lt. B. F. Best attack a small group of Comanches near Brownwood. They kill three Comanches and wound another. The Indians wound two rangers in the fighting.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.709126000000
Longitude: -98.991721000000
Longitude: -98.991721000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 288.
Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, 2nd edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 316.
Event Type:
Date: April 25, 1875
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, Native American, White U.S. soldiers and three black Seminole scouts led by Lt. John L. Bullis attack roughly 30 Comanches at Eagle Nest Creek. They kill three Comanches and wound one other.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.809357000000
Longitude: -101.549563000000
Longitude: -101.549563000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 291.
Event Type:
Date: May 8, 1875
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White About twenty Texas Rangers in Maj. John B. Jones Frontier Battalion attack seven Comanches after spotting them from Spy Knob peak. The rangers kill five Comanches in a running fight.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 33.395052000000
Longitude: -98.486420000000
Longitude: -98.486420000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 291.
Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, 2nd edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 317.
Event Type:
Date: August 25, 1875
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White The Texas Rangers Frontier Battalion fights a group of Lipan Apaches in the vicinity of Big Lake, thirty-four miles north of Ozona. They kill one Indian and wound three others, sustaining no casualties.
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.191518000000
Longitude: -101.460634000000
Longitude: -101.460634000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 292.
Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, 2nd edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 317.
Event Type:
Date: November 2, 1875
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, Native American, White Lt. Andrew Geddes leads U.S. soldiers and Black Seminole Scouts in an attack on Comanches at the mouth of the Pecos River near Langtry. They kill one warrior and capture four women and a boy, sustaining no casualties.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 29.714593000000
Longitude: -101.370188000000
Longitude: -101.370188000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 293.
Event Type:
Date: March 18, 1877
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of 45 buffalo hunters attacks a 300-strong Comanche camp. The Comanches repel the attackers, wounding five of them, one of them mortally. An unknown number of Comanches are wounded in the assault.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 33.453121000000
Longitude: -101.536559000000
Longitude: -101.536559000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 304-305.
Event Type:
Date: May 4, 1877
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, Native American, White Capt. Phillip L. Lee and 42 African-American soldiers attack a group of Comanches near present-day Morton. They kill at least four Comanche men and several women and children. Sgt. Charles Butler sustains a mortal wound in the fighting.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 33.725043000000
Longitude: -102.759270000000
Longitude: -102.759270000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 305.
Event Type:
Date: December 23, 1877
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American, White Texas Rangers and and Sheriff Charles Kerber, on their way to San Elizario to bury the victims of the Salt War uprising earlier in the month, arrest an Indian and Mexican for arms possession.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.698316000000
Longitude: -106.324945000000
Longitude: -106.324945000000
Citation:
Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, 2nd edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 363.
Event Type:
Date: December 23, 1877
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic On their way to San Elizario to bury the victims of the Salt War uprising, Texas Rangers and a posse led by Sheriff Charles Kerber, kill a Mexican man and wound a Mexican woman in Socorro, twelve miles south of El Paso.
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 31.654561000000
Longitude: -106.303303000000
Longitude: -106.303303000000
Citation:
Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, 2nd edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 363.
Event Type:
Date: June 29, 1878
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Capt. Junius Peake and seven rangers attack 25 Comanches near the headwaters of the North Concho River, south of Big Spring. Six Comanches are killed. One ranger is killed in the fighting and three others are wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.046308000000
Longitude: -101.303035000000
Longitude: -101.303035000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 318.
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