Longitude: -99.078827000000
- Frio
A party of Anglo-Texan bandits led by James H. Cocke (aka Cox), a resident of Bastrop, rob Mexican traders near Tahuacano Creek on the Old Presidio Road, eleven miles south of present-day Pearsall. A boy is killed and a man wounded. President Sam Houston offers a $500 reward for Cocke’s capture following the incident.
W. Eugene Hollon and Ruth Lapham Butler, ed., William Bollaert’s Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956), 354.
Joseph Milton Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 65-66.
Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker eds., The Writings of Sam Houston (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1939), 2:283.
Sam Houston Original Title: Sam Houston
Image Type: Engraving
Creator: Matthew Brady
Collection: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections, Garrett Collection
Longitude: -99.078827000000
- Frio
A party of Anglo-Texan bandits led by James H. Cocke (aka Cox), a resident of Bastrop, rob Mexican traders near Tahuacano Creek on the Old Presidio Road, eleven miles south of present-day Pearsall. A boy is killed and a man wounded. President Sam Houston offers a $500 reward for Cocke’s capture following the incident.
W. Eugene Hollon and Ruth Lapham Butler, ed., William Bollaert’s Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956), 354.
Joseph Milton Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 65-66.
Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker eds., The Writings of Sam Houston (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1939), 2:283.
Sam Houston Original Title: Sam Houston
Image Type: Engraving
Creator: Matthew Brady
Collection: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections, Garrett Collection