GeoCoords:
Latitude: 32.800948000000
Longitude: -95.904410000000
Longitude: -95.904410000000
Date:
July 21-22, 1839
Time Period:
Description:
Texans burn Cherokee villages, corn fields, and all improvements around the headwaters of the Sabine River near present-day Lake Tawakoni as they pursue the remnants of the Cherokee defeated at the Neches.
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:283.
Cherokee Indian Original Title: Cól-lee, a Band Chief
Image Type: Oil on canvas
Creator: George Catlin, 1834-1835
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Image Viewed: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/col-lee-band-chief-4003
Image Accessed: May 29, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 32.800948000000
Longitude: -95.904410000000
Longitude: -95.904410000000
Date:
July 21-22, 1839
Event Description:
Texans burn Cherokee villages, corn fields, and all improvements around the headwaters of the Sabine River near present-day Lake Tawakoni as they pursue the remnants of the Cherokee defeated at the Neches.
Tribe:
- Cherokees
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:283.
Cherokee Indian Original Title: Cól-lee, a Band Chief
Image Type: Oil on canvas
Creator: George Catlin, 1834-1835
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Image Viewed: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/col-lee-band-chief-4003
Image Accessed: May 29, 2019