GeoCoords:
Latitude: 33.004487000000
Longitude: -98.668308000000
Longitude: -98.668308000000
County:
- Young
Date:
October 13, 1864
Time Period:
Description:
A party of about 500 Comanches and Kiowas, including Chief Satanta, raid ranches along the Elm Creek tributary of the Brazos River, killing seven settlers and taking several captives. Comanche chief Little Buffalo and some of his men are killed during the raid. Fifteen Confederate troops pursue the raiders but are ambushed and forced to retreat. Twenty Indian warriors, seven settlers, and five Confederate soldiers die in the raid.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 155-156.
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 182-190.
Kiowa Chief Santanta Original Title: Santanta, Kioway Chief
Image Type: Photograph
Creator: William Stinson Soule
Collection: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
Image Viewed: https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3c36380/
Image Accessed: May 22, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 33.004487000000
Longitude: -98.668308000000
Longitude: -98.668308000000
County:
- Young
Date:
October 13, 1864
Event Description:
A party of about 500 Comanches and Kiowas, including Chief Satanta, raid ranches along the Elm Creek tributary of the Brazos River, killing seven settlers and taking several captives. Comanche chief Little Buffalo and some of his men are killed during the raid. Fifteen Confederate troops pursue the raiders but are ambushed and forced to retreat. Twenty Indian warriors, seven settlers, and five Confederate soldiers die in the raid.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
- Kiowas
Gender:
male
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 155-156.
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 182-190.
Kiowa Chief Santanta Original Title: Santanta, Kioway Chief
Image Type: Photograph
Creator: William Stinson Soule
Collection: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
Image Viewed: https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3c36380/
Image Accessed: May 22, 2019