GeoCoords:
Latitude: 28.602430000000
Longitude: -95.976605000000
Longitude: -95.976605000000
County:
- Matagorda
Date:
September 1822
Time Period:
Description:
Three colonists left to guard supplies at the mouth of the Colorado River. They were never found; Karankawas suspected.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Citation:
Kuykendall, "Reminiscences of Early Texans," The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, vol. 6, no. 3, January 1903, 236-237, 247.
Karankawa Indians Original Title: Carancahueses
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Lino Sánchez y Tapia
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Image Citation:
Jean Louis Berlandier, The Indians of Texas in 1830. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1969, Plate 15
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 28.602430000000
Longitude: -95.976605000000
Longitude: -95.976605000000
County:
- Matagorda
Date:
September 1822
Event Description:
Three colonists left to guard supplies at the mouth of the Colorado River. They were never found; Karankawas suspected.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Karankawas
Citation:
Kuykendall, "Reminiscences of Early Texans," The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, vol. 6, no. 3, January 1903, 236-237, 247.
Karankawa Indians Original Title: Carancahueses
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Lino Sánchez y Tapia
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Image Citation:
Jean Louis Berlandier, The Indians of Texas in 1830. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1969, Plate 15