Kiowas Attack Gillespie County Settlers | BORDER LAND: Interethnic Violence in Texas, 1820-1879

GeoCoords:

Latitude: 30.222845000000
Longitude: -98.907090000000

County:

Burnet

Date:

August 8, 1865

Time Period:

Texas Statehood 1846-

Description:

Twenty Kiowas attack settlers living near the junction of the Pedernales River and Live Oak Creek in Gillespie County. They kill two settlers and take five captives—a woman and four children. All five of the captives are eventually ransomed.

Event Type:

Raiding Activity

Race or Ethnicity:

Native American

White (includes Anglo-American, European)

Tribe:

Kiowas

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), 217-218.

J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 646-648.

Image
Image details

Kiowa Indian

Caption: Kiowa Indian
Original Title: Toro-Mucho, Chief of a Band of Kiowas
Image Type: Chromolithograph
Creator: William Stinson Soule
Collection: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections, Garrett Collection
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. 89.