GeoCoords:
Latitude: 29.860759000000
Longitude: -99.369184000000
Longitude: -99.369184000000
County:
- Bandera
Date:
Early October, 1862
Time Period:
Description:
Fifteen settlers led by Taylor Thompson track a party of Comanches that had raided the farmhouse of Fritz Krawitz a few days earlier. They encounter the raiding party on the North Prong of the Medina River, twenty miles northwest of Bandera. They recover Krawitz’s three children and kill six Indians. One settler is killed; one is wounded.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
child (0-12)
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 124-125.
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/43363844
Image Accessed: April 3, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 29.860759000000
Longitude: -99.369184000000
Longitude: -99.369184000000
County:
- Bandera
Date:
Early October, 1862
Event Description:
Fifteen settlers led by Taylor Thompson track a party of Comanches that had raided the farmhouse of Fritz Krawitz a few days earlier. They encounter the raiding party on the North Prong of the Medina River, twenty miles northwest of Bandera. They recover Krawitz’s three children and kill six Indians. One settler is killed; one is wounded.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
Gender:
male
Age:
child (0-12)
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 124-125.
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/43363844
Image Accessed: April 3, 2019