GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.448301000000
Longitude: -98.695110000000
Longitude: -98.695110000000
County:
- Mills
Date:
March 9, 1862
Time Period:
Description:
A party of eleven settlers fight a similar number of Comanches off Pecan Bayou, seven miles west of present-day Goldthwaite. Owen Lindsey is killed; three other settlers are wounded. Two Indians die in the encounter.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 101.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 491-493.
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: 31.448301000000
Longitude: -98.695110000000
Longitude: -98.695110000000
County:
- Mills
Date:
March 9, 1862
Event Description:
A party of eleven settlers fight a similar number of Comanches off Pecan Bayou, seven miles west of present-day Goldthwaite. Owen Lindsey is killed; three other settlers are wounded. Two Indians die in the encounter.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
Gender:
male
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 101.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 491-493.
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