GeoCoords:
Latitude: 32.800948000000
Longitude: -95.904410000000
Longitude: -95.904410000000
Date:
July 23, 1839
Time Period:
Description:
An Anglo settler named Blankenship is killed by Cherokees near the Sabine River, probably near present-day Lake Tawakoni.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 2:275.
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 23, 1839
Event Description:
An Anglo settler named Blankenship is killed by Cherokees near the Sabine River, probably near present-day Lake Tawakoni.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Cherokees
Gender:
male
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 2:275.
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