Supporters of Vicente Córdova--a force that included Mexicans, blacks, Kickapoos, Delawares, Caddos, Coushattas, and Cherokees--attack Gen. Thomas Jefferson Rusk and 260 Texas Rangers at an abandoned Kickapoo village on Kickapoo Creek, two and a half miles southeast of present day Frankston.
Date: October 16, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kickapoos, Delawares, Caddos, Alabama/Coushatta, Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, Hispanic, Native American, White Tribe: Kickapoos, Delawares, Caddos, Alabama/Coushatta, Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.017935000000
Longitude: -95.480488000000
Longitude: -95.480488000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 67-78.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 2:81-82.
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Date: October 18, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kickapoos
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Eleven Kickapoos raid the home of John Edens on San Pedro Creek, 13 miles northeast of present-day Crockett. Three Anglo women and four children are killed.
Tribe: Kickapoos
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 31.495166000000
Longitude: -95.382584000000
Longitude: -95.382584000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 57.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:81-83.
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Date: October 20, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A force of 100 Comanches surround and attack a party of Mexican and Anglo surveyors on Leon Creek, four miles north of San Antonio. Two surveyors are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.375536000000
Longitude: -98.593258000000
Longitude: -98.593258000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:83-85.
Telegraph and Texas Register, November 3, 1838.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 81.
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Date: October 20, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A volunteer party from San Antonio under Capt. Benjamin Franklin Cage on its way to Leon Creek in response to the attack on a surveying party earlier that day is attacked by Comanches three miles north of San Antonio. Eight Texans are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.414714000000
Longitude: -98.541445000000
Longitude: -98.541445000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:83-8.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 81.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:230.
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Date: November 17, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Two residents of Bastrop (Weaver and Hart) are killed by a party of 12-15 Indians, probably Comanches, outside Bastrop while returning from the house of William Pinkney Hill. Several horses are stolen.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.159826000000
Longitude: -97.179475000000
Longitude: -97.179475000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:230.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:97. “
Extract from a letter dated Bastrop, Dec. 21, 1838,” Telegraph and Texas Register, January 5, 1839.
Date: November 24, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Indians, probably Comanches, raid the Chandler farm 18 miles above Bastrop, but only succeed in killing several cattle.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.249657000000
Longitude: -97.278542000000
Longitude: -97.278542000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:97.
Event Type:
Date: Winter 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of Bastrop residents on a buffalo hunt is attacked by Indians, probably Comanches, near Young’s Settlement, four miles south of present-day Elgin. One Anglo and one Indian are wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.284693000000
Longitude: -97.318879000000
Longitude: -97.318879000000
Citation:
Wilbarger, John Wesley. Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 89.
Event Type:
Date: Winter 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White An Indian raiding party, probably Comanche, steals 60 horses, as well as washing hanging out to dry, from the residents of Bastrop. A skirmish with seven Bastrop residents follows, with no reported casualties.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.108154000000
Longitude: -97.282898000000
Longitude: -97.282898000000
Citation:
Wilbarger, John Wesley. Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 90.
Event Type:
Date: Early December 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Two rangers, McCarty, son of William McCarty, and William Dority, are killed by Indians while collecting hogs on Bois d’Arc Creek near Orangeville, ten miles southwest of present-day Bonham.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.517052000000
Longitude: -96.370308000000
Longitude: -96.370308000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:117-118.
Date: December 5, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Joseph Harris is killed by Indians near Fort Sherman, thirteen miles southwest of Mt. Pleasant.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.059061000000
Longitude: -95.096914000000
Longitude: -95.096914000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:274.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:113.
Event Type:
Date: December 9, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanches kill a four-year-old girl and capture five children gathering pecans along the Guadalupe River near present day Cuero: Matilda Lockhart, age thirteen, Rhoda Putnam, age seventeen, Elizabeth Putnam, age six, Juda Putnam, age two, and James Putnam age ten.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 29.100371000000
Longitude: -97.329207000000
Longitude: -97.329207000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:96-97.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 1-2.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-December 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Josiah Washburn, William Washburn, and a third man are killed by Indians near Fort Lyday, present-day Bois d’Arc.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.958496000000
Longitude: -95.753017000000
Longitude: -95.753017000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:113.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 383-386.
Event Type:
Date: 1839 n.d.
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White George Dugan and a Mr. Cox, are killed in Fannin County. Two nephews of Cox, ages 12 and 14, are taken. The youths are later recovered and purchased from Choctaws in the fall of 1840.
Tribe: Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.475235000000
Longitude: -96.156147000000
Longitude: -96.156147000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:276.
Event Type:
Date: January 1, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Anadarkos (Caddo) attack the home of George Morgan, at Morgan’s Point six miles north of present-day Marlin. George Morgan, his wife and grandson Jackson Jones, Mrs. Jackson Jones, and Adeline Marlin, 15 years old, are killed. Wesley Jones, Mary and Stacy Ann Marlin survive the attack.
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 31.313212000000
Longitude: -96.900295000000
Longitude: -96.900295000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:135-137.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 361-363.
Event Type:
Date: January 2, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches, Tonkawas, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Comanches attack Tonkawas and Lipan Apaches between the Colorado and Brazos Rivers above Bastrop over disputed hunting grounds. Two Comanches are killed.
Tribe: Comanches, Tonkawas, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.194016000000
Longitude: -97.394953000000
Longitude: -97.394953000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, January 2, 1839.
Event Type:
Date: January 14, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A band of about 70 Anadarko (Caddo) Indians raid the farm of William Marlin on Big Creek, seven miles east of present-day Marlin. The Caddos withdraw after seven Indians are killed.
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.319188000000
Longitude: -96.776142000000
Longitude: -96.776142000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:139-140.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 361-363.
Event Type:
Date: January 16, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Benjamin Bryant and about 50 Anglo settlers track a party of Anadarkos (Caddos) led by Chief José María who had attacked the Marlin house on January 14. The Texans engage the Indians near the Brazos Falls, four miles south of present-day Marlin.
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.180085000000
Longitude: -96.881614000000
Longitude: -96.881614000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:141-145.
Telegraph and Texas Register, January 23, 1839.
John W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 363-367.
Event Type:
Date: January 23, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Indians, possibly Caddos, attack the Campbell home on Town Creek, three miles west of Palestine. Mrs. Campbell, her son 21-year-old Malathiel, and daughters 14-year-old Hulda and 11-year-old Fountain, are killed. Mrs. Campbell’s four-year-old son George and teenaged daughter Pamelia survive.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 31.737861000000
Longitude: -95.651440000000
Longitude: -95.651440000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 57-8.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:148-149.
Event Type:
Date: January 29, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Shawnees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Shawnees kill the two eldest sons of John R. McIntire on Choctaw Bayou in far northwest Fannin County, ten miles east of present-day Denison.
Tribe: Shawnees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.719514000000
Longitude: -96.410471000000
Longitude: -96.410471000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:275.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:155.
Rex Wallace Strickland, “History of Fannin County, Texas, 1836-1843,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 33, no. 4 (April 1930): 292-293.
Event Type:
Date: February 8, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Shawnees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Three men--Bushnell Garner, David Alberty, and Isaac Camp--are killed by Indians, possibly Shawnees, three miles west of present-day Denison.
Tribe: Shawnees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.747668000000
Longitude: -96.651718000000
Longitude: -96.651718000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:275.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:155.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 430.
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