GeoCoords:
Latitude: 30.874866000000
Longitude: -98.154866000000
Longitude: -98.154866000000
County:
- Burnet
Date:
February 11, 1860
Time Period:
Description:
Comanches and Kiowas kill Benjamin Van Hook on the headwaters of the North Fork of the San Gabriel River, a little more than three miles southeast of present-day Lake Victor.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 21.
Kiowa Indian Original Title: Kiowa brave in war dress
Image Type: Photographic print
Collection: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection. 1850 - 1900.
Image Viewed: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/43264042
Image Accessed: April 3, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 30.874866000000
Longitude: -98.154866000000
Longitude: -98.154866000000
County:
- Burnet
Date:
February 11, 1860
Event Description:
Comanches and Kiowas kill Benjamin Van Hook on the headwaters of the North Fork of the San Gabriel River, a little more than three miles southeast of present-day Lake Victor.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
- Kiowas
Gender:
male
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 21.
Kiowa Indian Original Title: Kiowa brave in war dress
Image Type: Photographic print
Collection: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection. 1850 - 1900.
Image Viewed: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/43264042
Image Accessed: April 3, 2019