A party of traders traveling from the Rio Grande to San Antonio is attacked by Comanches at the Leona River. One man is killed; the party’s mules, horses and baggage are stolen.
Date: August, 1845
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.738801000000
Longitude: -99.167059000000
Longitude: -99.167059000000
Citation:
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers 1844-1845 (Austin: Texas State Library), 2:332.
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Date: September 15, 1845
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American A company of 66 Mexican troops pursue Comanche raiding party of more than 20 Indians.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.686786000000
Longitude: -99.565837000000
Longitude: -99.565837000000
Citation:
Wood, Robert D. Archivos de Laredo: Index to the Municipal Correspondence 1825-1845, 1.
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Date: October, 1845
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Two Germans, Captain Friedrich von Wrede and Lieutenant Oscar Claren, are killed by Indians, believed to be Wichitas (Wacos), en route to New Braunfels from Austin. Their companion, Wessel, kills one of the Indians, and escapes.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.637303000000
Longitude: -98.152331000000
Longitude: -98.152331000000
Citation:
Ferdinand Roemer, Texas, (Austin: Eakin Press, 1995), 175
R. L. Biesele, The Relations Between the German Settlers and the Indians of Texas, 1844-1960, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 31, no. 2(1927), 120-21.
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