GeoCoords:
Latitude: 30.271892000000
Longitude: -97.846513000000
Longitude: -97.846513000000
County:
- Travis
Date:
October 2, 1841
Time Period:
Description:
Austin resident James Boyce is killed near Austin by unknown Indians near Walnut Creek. Although some residents suspected Lipan Apaches of the murder, no action was taken, as a result of their years of cooperation with Anglo-Texans.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:353.
Apache (Lipan) Indian Original Title: Lipan Warrior
Collection: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collecitons
Image Citation:
Emory, William H., Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey 34th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Ex. Doc. 108 (3 vols.; Washington, D.C.: A. O. P. Nicholson, Printer, 1857-1859), vol. 1, opp. p. 78.
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 30.271892000000
Longitude: -97.846513000000
Longitude: -97.846513000000
County:
- Travis
Date:
October 2, 1841
Event Description:
Austin resident James Boyce is killed near Austin by unknown Indians near Walnut Creek. Although some residents suspected Lipan Apaches of the murder, no action was taken, as a result of their years of cooperation with Anglo-Texans.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Apaches
- Lipans
- Unknown Tribe
Gender:
male
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:353.
Apache (Lipan) Indian Original Title: Lipan Warrior
Collection: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collecitons
Image Citation:
Emory, William H., Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey 34th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Ex. Doc. 108 (3 vols.; Washington, D.C.: A. O. P. Nicholson, Printer, 1857-1859), vol. 1, opp. p. 78.