GeoCoords:
Latitude: 33.435116000000
Longitude: -97.350942000000
Longitude: -97.350942000000
County:
- Cooke
Date:
October 30, 1868
Time Period:
Description:
About 50 settlers track 125 Kiowas to Whites Creek, seventeen miles southwest of Gainesville. The Indians repel the assault, wounding several settlers and killing Abe Fortenberry.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 369.
Kiowa Camp Original Title: Kiowa Camp
Image Type: Photograph
Creator: William Stinson Soule
Image Viewed: http://cdm15942.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15942coll9/id/15/rec/6
Image Accessed: April 9, 2019
Image Citation:
Wichita State University, Special Collections, A.A. Hyde Collection of William S. Soule Photographs,
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 33.435116000000
Longitude: -97.350942000000
Longitude: -97.350942000000
County:
- Cooke
Date:
October 30, 1868
Event Description:
About 50 settlers track 125 Kiowas to Whites Creek, seventeen miles southwest of Gainesville. The Indians repel the assault, wounding several settlers and killing Abe Fortenberry.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Kiowas
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 369.
Kiowa Camp Original Title: Kiowa Camp
Image Type: Photograph
Creator: William Stinson Soule
Image Viewed: http://cdm15942.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15942coll9/id/15/rec/6
Image Accessed: April 9, 2019
Image Citation:
Wichita State University, Special Collections, A.A. Hyde Collection of William S. Soule Photographs,