GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.930247000000
Longitude: -98.275125000000
Longitude: -98.275125000000
County:
- Comanche
Date:
Late December, 1857
Time Period:
Description:
A slave herding horses is attacked by Comanches near Resley Creek, roughly twenty miles southwest of Stephenville. Though wounded by six arrows, he manages to survive.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Citation:
Gregory Michno and Susan Michno, A Fate Worse than Death: Indian Captivities in the West, 1830-1885 (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2007), 172.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 498-499.
Comanche Man Original Title: Comanche Brave
Image Type: Photograph
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection. 1850 - 1900
Image Viewed: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/43363843
Image Accessed: April 3, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.930247000000
Longitude: -98.275125000000
Longitude: -98.275125000000
County:
- Comanche
Date:
Late December, 1857
Event Description:
A slave herding horses is attacked by Comanches near Resley Creek, roughly twenty miles southwest of Stephenville. Though wounded by six arrows, he manages to survive.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
Gender:
male
Citation:
Gregory Michno and Susan Michno, A Fate Worse than Death: Indian Captivities in the West, 1830-1885 (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2007), 172.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 498-499.
Comanche Man Original Title: Comanche Brave
Image Type: Photograph
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection. 1850 - 1900
Image Viewed: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/43363843
Image Accessed: April 3, 2019