GeoCoords:
Latitude: 33.012892000000
Longitude: -98.670266000000
Longitude: -98.670266000000
County:
- Young
Date:
July 17, 1867
Time Period:
Description:
Seventy-five Comanches kill three men, Patrick E. Proffitt, Rice Carrollton, and Reuben Johnson, on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River, in southern Young County. They subsequently attack a nearby farmhouse but are repelled by the settlers.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
youth (13-18)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 319-320.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 549.
Comanche Man Original Title: Comanche Brave
Image Type: Photograph
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection. 1850 - 1900
Image Viewed: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/43363844
Image Accessed: April 3, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 33.012892000000
Longitude: -98.670266000000
Longitude: -98.670266000000
County:
- Young
Date:
July 17, 1867
Event Description:
Seventy-five Comanches kill three men, Patrick E. Proffitt, Rice Carrollton, and Reuben Johnson, on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River, in southern Young County. They subsequently attack a nearby farmhouse but are repelled by the settlers.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
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), 319-320.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 549.
Comanche Man Original Title: Comanche Brave
Image Type: Photograph
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection. 1850 - 1900
Image Viewed: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/43363844
Image Accessed: April 3, 2019