GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.191518000000
Longitude: -101.460634000000
Longitude: -101.460634000000
County:
- Reagan
Date:
August 25, 1875
Time Period:
Description:
The Texas Rangers Frontier Battalion fights a group of Lipan Apaches in the vicinity of Big Lake, thirty-four miles north of Ozona. They kill one Indian and wound three others, sustaining no casualties.
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), 292.
Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, 2nd edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 317.
Apache Indians Original Title: Apache Braves
Image Type: Photograph
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection. 1850 - 1900
Image Viewed: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/43267804
Image Accessed: April 2, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.191518000000
Longitude: -101.460634000000
Longitude: -101.460634000000
County:
- Reagan
Date:
August 25, 1875
Event Description:
The Texas Rangers Frontier Battalion fights a group of Lipan Apaches in the vicinity of Big Lake, thirty-four miles north of Ozona. They kill one Indian and wound three others, sustaining no casualties.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Apaches
- Lipans
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 292.
Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, 2nd edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 317.
Apache Indians Original Title: Apache Braves
Image Type: Photograph
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection. 1850 - 1900
Image Viewed: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/43267804
Image Accessed: April 2, 2019