GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.836802000000
Longitude: -98.883326000000
Longitude: -98.883326000000
County:
- Brown
Date:
Early October 1866
Time Period:
Description:
A party of 40 settlers attack a Comanche camp near Gap Creek in Brown County. They kill seven Comanches and wound four others, losing one man in the fighting.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 190-191.
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 284.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 493-498.
Commanche Lodge Original Title: Commanche Lodge of Buffalo Skins
Image Type: Phototgraph
Creator: George Catlin
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection. 1850 - 1900
Image Viewed: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/43263894
Image Accessed: April 3, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.836802000000
Longitude: -98.883326000000
Longitude: -98.883326000000
County:
- Brown
Date:
Early October 1866
Event Description:
A party of 40 settlers attack a Comanche camp near Gap Creek in Brown County. They kill seven Comanches and wound four others, losing one man in the fighting.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
Gender:
male
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 190-191.
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 284.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 493-498.
Commanche Lodge Original Title: Commanche Lodge of Buffalo Skins
Image Type: Phototgraph
Creator: George Catlin
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection. 1850 - 1900
Image Viewed: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/43263894
Image Accessed: April 3, 2019