Longitude: -95.480488000000
- Anderson
Supporters of Vicente Córdova--a force that included Mexicans, blacks, Kickapoos, Delawares, Caddos, Coushattas, and Cherokees--attack Gen. Thomas Jefferson Rusk and 260 Texas Rangers at an abandoned Kickapoo village on Kickapoo Creek, two and a half miles southeast of present day Frankston. Eleven Indians and Mexicans are reported killed. One Texan, James Hall, later dies of his wounds.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 67-78.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 2:81-82.
Thomas Jefferson Rusk Original Title: Thomas J. Rusk
Image Type: Engraving
Collection: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
Image Citation:
Baker, D. W. C., A Texas Scrap-Book Made Up of the History, Biography and Miscellany of Texas and Its People. New York, NY: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1875, opp page 155
Longitude: -95.480488000000
- Anderson
Supporters of Vicente Córdova--a force that included Mexicans, blacks, Kickapoos, Delawares, Caddos, Coushattas, and Cherokees--attack Gen. Thomas Jefferson Rusk and 260 Texas Rangers at an abandoned Kickapoo village on Kickapoo Creek, two and a half miles southeast of present day Frankston. Eleven Indians and Mexicans are reported killed. One Texan, James Hall, later dies of his wounds.
- Kickapoos
- Delawares
- Caddos
- Alabama/Coushatta
- Cherokees
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 67-78.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 2:81-82.
Thomas Jefferson Rusk Original Title: Thomas J. Rusk
Image Type: Engraving
Collection: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
Image Citation:
Baker, D. W. C., A Texas Scrap-Book Made Up of the History, Biography and Miscellany of Texas and Its People. New York, NY: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1875, opp page 155