GeoCoords:
Latitude: 33.974339000000
Longitude: -99.232048000000
Longitude: -99.232048000000
County:
- Wilbarger
Date:
April 1866
Time Period:
Description:
Forty Comanches and Kiowas raid Waggoner’s Ranch, about twelve miles south of Vernon. A herder, George Halsell, is killed.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 252-253.
Kiowa Indian Original Title: Toro-Mucho, Chief of a Band of Kiowas
Image Type: Chromolithograph
Creator: William Stinson Soule
Collection: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections, Garrett Collection
Image Citation:
Emory, William H., Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey 34th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Ex. Doc. 108 (3 vols.; Washington, D.C.: A. O. P. Nicholson, Printer, 1857-1859), vol. 1, opp. p. 89.
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 33.974339000000
Longitude: -99.232048000000
Longitude: -99.232048000000
County:
- Wilbarger
Date:
April 1866
Event Description:
Forty Comanches and Kiowas raid Waggoner’s Ranch, about twelve miles south of Vernon. A herder, George Halsell, is killed.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
- Kiowas
Gender:
male
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 252-253.
Kiowa Indian Original Title: Toro-Mucho, Chief of a Band of Kiowas
Image Type: Chromolithograph
Creator: William Stinson Soule
Collection: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections, Garrett Collection
Image Citation:
Emory, William H., Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey 34th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Ex. Doc. 108 (3 vols.; Washington, D.C.: A. O. P. Nicholson, Printer, 1857-1859), vol. 1, opp. p. 89.