GeoCoords:
Latitude: 33.093689000000
Longitude: -97.583846000000
Longitude: -97.583846000000
County:
- Wise
Date:
Mid-August 1866
Time Period:
Description:
Comanches or Kiowas kill seventeen-year-old Logan B. Higgins on the West Fork Trinity River, roughly ten miles south of present-day Decatur.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Age:
youth (13-18)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 264.
Kiowa Indian Original Title: Kiowa brave in war dress
Image Type: Photographic print
Collection: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection. 1850 - 1900.
Image Viewed: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/43264042
Image Accessed: April 3, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 33.093689000000
Longitude: -97.583846000000
Longitude: -97.583846000000
County:
- Wise
Date:
Mid-August 1866
Event Description:
Comanches or Kiowas kill seventeen-year-old Logan B. Higgins on the West Fork Trinity River, roughly ten miles south of present-day Decatur.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
- Kiowas
Gender:
male
Age:
youth (13-18)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 264.
Kiowa Indian Original Title: Kiowa brave in war dress
Image Type: Photographic print
Collection: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection. 1850 - 1900.
Image Viewed: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/43264042
Image Accessed: April 3, 2019