GeoCoords:
Latitude: 35.406416000000
Longitude: -100.675284000000
Longitude: -100.675284000000
County:
- Gray
Date:
September 29, 1872
Time Period:
Description:
A force of 220 U.S. soldiers and 20 Tonkawa scouts under Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie, attack a Kotsoteka and Quahadi Comanche camp on the North Fork of the Red River, seven miles from the mouth of McClellan’s Creek. The soldiers kill more than 30 Indians, including Chief Kai-wotche and his wife. Four soldiers are killed; four are wounded. More than 100 Comanches are captured, eight of whom die on a subsequent march south.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 258-259.
Michael L. Nunnally, American Indian Wars: A Chronology of Confrontations Between Native Peoples and Settlers and the United States Military, 1500s-1901 (Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2007), 129.
Chief of Tonkawa Scouts Original Title: Johnson, Chief of Tonkawa Scouts, United States Army
Image Type: Photographic print
Creator: Henry S. Schuster
Collection: Southern Methodist University, DeGolyer Library, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
Image Viewed: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/jtx/id/259/rec/1
Image Accessed: May 29, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 35.406416000000
Longitude: -100.675284000000
Longitude: -100.675284000000
County:
- Gray
Date:
September 29, 1872
Event Description:
A force of 220 U.S. soldiers and 20 Tonkawa scouts under Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie, attack a Kotsoteka and Quahadi Comanche camp on the North Fork of the Red River, seven miles from the mouth of McClellan’s Creek. The soldiers kill more than 30 Indians, including Chief Kai-wotche and his wife. Four soldiers are killed; four are wounded. More than 100 Comanches are captured, eight of whom die on a subsequent march south.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Tonkawas
- Comanches
- Kotsoteka
- Comanches
- Quahadi
Gender:
male
female
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 258-259.
Michael L. Nunnally, American Indian Wars: A Chronology of Confrontations Between Native Peoples and Settlers and the United States Military, 1500s-1901 (Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2007), 129.
Chief of Tonkawa Scouts Original Title: Johnson, Chief of Tonkawa Scouts, United States Army
Image Type: Photographic print
Creator: Henry S. Schuster
Collection: Southern Methodist University, DeGolyer Library, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
Image Viewed: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/jtx/id/259/rec/1
Image Accessed: May 29, 2019