Longitude: -97.179475000000
- Bastrop
Two residents of Bastrop (Weaver and Hart) are killed by a party of 12-15 Indians, probably Comanches, outside Bastrop while returning from the house of William Pinkney Hill. Several horses are stolen.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:230.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:97. “
Extract from a letter dated Bastrop, Dec. 21, 1838,” Telegraph and Texas Register, January 5, 1839.
Comanche Indian Original Title: Ta-wáh-que-nah, Mountain of Rocks, Second Chief of the Tribe (Comanche)
Image Type: Oil on canvas
Creator: George Catlin, 1834
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Image Viewed: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/ta-wah-que-nah-mountain-rocks-second-chief-tribe-4278
Image Accessed: April 9, 2019
Longitude: -97.179475000000
- Bastrop
Two residents of Bastrop (Weaver and Hart) are killed by a party of 12-15 Indians, probably Comanches, outside Bastrop while returning from the house of William Pinkney Hill. Several horses are stolen.
- Comanches
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:230.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:97. “
Extract from a letter dated Bastrop, Dec. 21, 1838,” Telegraph and Texas Register, January 5, 1839.
Comanche Indian Original Title: Ta-wáh-que-nah, Mountain of Rocks, Second Chief of the Tribe (Comanche)
Image Type: Oil on canvas
Creator: George Catlin, 1834
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Image Viewed: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/ta-wah-que-nah-mountain-rocks-second-chief-tribe-4278
Image Accessed: April 9, 2019