Comanches attack Isaac N. Kountz and his brother Sebastian two miles southwest of Junction. Sixteen-year-old Isaac is killed; Sebastian, aged eleven, manages to escape.
Date: December 27, 1877
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.472553000000
Longitude: -99.799660000000
Longitude: -99.799660000000
Citation:
Joseph Carroll McConnell, The West Texas Frontier: Or, A Descriptive History of Early Times in Western Texas, Volume 2 (Jacksboro: Gazette Print, 1933), 810.
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Date: n.d. 1878
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American In one of the last Indian raids in Kerr County, Comanches kill four of James Dowdy’s children while they are minding the family’s sheep near their home on Johnson Creek, eight miles northwest of Kerrville.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.096493000000
Longitude: -99.264992000000
Longitude: -99.264992000000
Citation:
Andrew Jackson Sowell, Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas (Austin: Ben C. Jones & Co., 1900), 740-741.
Michael L. Nunnally, American Indian Wars: A Chronology of Confrontations Between Native Peoples and Settlers and the United States Military, 1500s-1901 (Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2007), 146.
Event Type:
Date: June 1, 1878
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Unidentified Indians kill Sowser Coalson on Half Moon Prairie, sixteen miles south of Rocksprings.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.784166000000
Longitude: -100.170333000000
Longitude: -100.170333000000
Citation:
Joseph Carroll McConnell, The West Texas Frontier: Or, A Descriptive History of Early Times in Western Texas, Volume 2 (Jacksboro: Gazette Print, 1933), 815-816.
Event Type:
Date: June 29, 1878
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Capt. Junius Peake and seven rangers attack 25 Comanches near the headwaters of the North Concho River, south of Big Spring. Six Comanches are killed. One ranger is killed in the fighting and three others are wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.046308000000
Longitude: -101.303035000000
Longitude: -101.303035000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 318.
Event Type:
Date: November 1878
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, White Vigilantes capture a Mexican wanted for murder and return him to San Diego where a local mob hangs him.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 27.763995000000
Longitude: -98.238878000000
Longitude: -98.238878000000
Citation:
William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 204.
Event Type:
Date: April 14, 1879
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Thirty-five Kiowas kill a man named Earl in the vicinity of Quanah.
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 34.297920000000
Longitude: -99.739772000000
Longitude: -99.739772000000
Citation:
Joseph Carroll McConnell, The West Texas Frontier: Or, A Descriptive History of Early Times in Western Texas, Volume 2 (Jacksboro: Gazette Print, 1933), 819.
Event Type:
Date: June 1, 1879
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Unidentified Indians kill Nick Coalson’s wife, daughter and baby on the Half Moon Prairie. Their bodies are discovered by son, Johnny.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 29.784166000000
Longitude: -100.170333000000
Longitude: -100.170333000000
Citation:
Joseph Carroll McConnell, The West Texas Frontier: Or, A Descriptive History of Early Times in Western Texas, Volume 2 (Jacksboro: Gazette Print, 1933), 817-818.
Event Type:
Date: July 27, 1879
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Apaches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Capt. Michael L. Courtney and U.S. soldiers under his command attack Apaches in the vicinity of Salt Flat in Hudspeth County. They wound three Apaches, two of which later die. Two soldiers sustain wounds in the fighting.
Tribe: Apaches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.743797000000
Longitude: -105.093758000000
Longitude: -105.093758000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 325.
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