A party of Lipan Apaches kill two residents of San Antonio.
Date: Early 1820
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.399088000000
Longitude: -98.622415000000
Longitude: -98.622415000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 109.
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Date: 1820
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Tawakonis (Wichita) attack Lipan Apaches on Colorado River. All 85 Lipans killed. Mexican prisoners, mostly youths, released.
Tribe: Tawakonis, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.247303000000
Longitude: -97.625370000000
Longitude: -97.625370000000
Citation:
Charles A. Gulick, ed. The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (Austin: A.C. Baldwin, 1921) 4/1:191-92.
Event Type:
Date: Early 1820
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American Lipan Apaches attack a small Spanish force on the Frio River, seizing all their horses and killing four soldiers.
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.142275000000
Longitude: -99.555026000000
Longitude: -99.555026000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 109.
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Date: March 1820
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Lipans, Tawakonis, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of Lipan Apaches, Tawakonis (Wichitas), and Comanches raid San Antonio, killing four Bexareños.
Tribe: Lipans, Tawakonis, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.424122000000
Longitude: -98.493628000000
Longitude: -98.493628000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 110.
Event Type:
Date: July 1820
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Lipan Apaches attack two hundred Spanish troops and fifty militiamen leaving La Bahía (Goliad). In retaliation, Spanish troops kill eight Apaches in an assault on a Lipan rancheria
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.661395000000
Longitude: -97.388434000000
Longitude: -97.388434000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 109.
Event Type:
Date: Early 1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis, Tonkawas, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Tawakonis (Wichitas) fight Tonkawas and Lipan Apaches at the La Bahía crossing of the Colorado River. Four Tonkawas are killed.
Tribe: Tawakonis, Tonkawas, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.668325000000
Longitude: -97.388327000000
Longitude: -97.388327000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, ed. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington Press, 1975), 2:525.
Event Type:
Date: April 4, 1826
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis, Kichais, Tonkawas, Lipans
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tawakoni (Wichita) and Kichai (Wichita) camp attacked on Colorado River, five leagues below the road to La Bahia, by combined force of 30 militiamen and Tonkawa and Lipan Indians, led by James J. Ross. Eight Tawakonis killed, including three chiefs: Cordero, Lisaque, and Guichupa.
Tribe: Tawakonis, Kichais, Tonkawas, Lipans
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.836852000000
Longitude: -96.543388000000
Longitude: -96.543388000000
Citation:
Eugene C. Barker, ed. The Austin Papers (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924–27), vol. 2, part 2:1304-05. Also in Malcolm D. McLean, ed. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington Press, 1975), 2:535.
Event Type:
Date: February 1827
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos, Comanches, Lipans, Tonkawas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Wacos (Wichitas) and Comanches attacked Lipan Apaches and Tonkawas on San Marcos River nine miles above Gonzales, stole several hundred horses.
Tribe: Wacos, Comanches, Lipans, Tonkawas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.518351000000
Longitude: -97.491839000000
Longitude: -97.491839000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 133; Eugene C. Barker, ed. The Austin Papers (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924–27), vol. 2, part 2, 1607.
Event Type:
Date: August 1829
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Lipans, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Stephen Austin and Lipan Apaches lead an expedition against Tawakonis (Wichitas). Six Tawakonis killed by a militia company led by Abner Kuykendall near the mouth of the San Saba River.
Tribe: Lipans, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.252707000000
Longitude: -98.595677000000
Longitude: -98.595677000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: State House Press, 1988), 69; Henderson K. Yoakum, History of Texas: From its First Settlement in 1685 to its Annexation to the United States in 1846 (Austin: Steck, 1953), 261.
Event Type:
Date: April 1833
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Lipans, Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American Mexican troops led by Capt. Manuel Barragán and assisted by Lipan Apaches kill seven Comanches west of San Antonio.
Tribe: Lipans, Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.418826000000
Longitude: -98.781509000000
Longitude: -98.781509000000
Citation:
Foster Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 144.
Event Type:
Date: Early August 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Two Anglos (Ross and Stevens) are reported killed near Goliad, possibly by Lipan Apaches.
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.674973000000
Longitude: -97.410150000000
Longitude: -97.410150000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, August 19, 1837.
Event Type:
Date: April 7, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A skirmish between Lipan Apaches and Comanches along the Nueces results in eight Lipans killed
Tribe: Comanches, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.327280000000
Longitude: -98.470639000000
Longitude: -98.470639000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, April 7, 1838.
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: February 14, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Lipans, Tonkawas, Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American To punish Comanches for their recent raids on the western settlements, as well as to find the Lockhart and Putnam children captured the previous December, John H. Moore leads an expedition of 55 settlers and 54 Indians (Lipan Apaches and Tonkawas) up the San Saba River valley.
Tribe: Lipans, Tonkawas, Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.274394000000
Longitude: -98.824955000000
Longitude: -98.824955000000
Citation:
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers, 1825-1843, 57-59.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:161-168.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 215-217.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 144-46.
Event Type:
Date: May 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A party of Mexican merchants, eight men and one woman, is killed and their horses stolen by Lipan Apaches on the Nueces River en route to Aransas City.
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 28.062732000000
Longitude: -97.041269000000
Longitude: -97.041269000000
Citation:
Hobart Huson, Refugio: A Comprehensive History of Refugio County from Aboriginal Times to 1953 (Woodsboro, TX: The Rooke Foundation, Inc., 1953), 435.
Telegraph and Texas Register, June 26, 1839.
Event Type:
Date: July/August 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Lipans, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A party of Lipan Indians engage Comanches on Rio Frio, killing thirteen. Seven or eight Comanches are sent as prisoners to Bexar.
Tribe: Lipans, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.667226000000
Longitude: -99.744998000000
Longitude: -99.744998000000
Citation:
Illinois Free Trader, August 28, 1840.
Event Type:
Date: October 24, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A force of approximately one hundred rangers and Lipan Apache scouts under the command of Col. John H. Moore attacks a Comanche village of 65 families. More than 100 Indians are reported killed, many trying to cross the river. Two Texans are wounded.
Tribe: Comanches, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 32.435018000000
Longitude: -100.895793000000
Longitude: -100.895793000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:151-155.
Event Type:
Date: January 20-March 5, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches, Tonkawas, Lipans
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Edwin Morehouse leads a search and destroy campaign against the Comanches. His force of 250 Anglos, Tonkawas, and Lipan Apaches marches to the headwaters of the Brazos and Trinity rivers, but fails to find the tribe’s winter encampments. Two hostile Indians are reported killed during the campaign
Tribe: Comanches, Tonkawas, Lipans
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.377121000000
Longitude: -97.803701000000
Longitude: -97.803701000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:187-192.
Event Type:
Date: Early June, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A San Patricio ranger company led by James P. Ownsby, consisting of about thirty Anglos and thirty Lipan Apaches, attacks and kills a party of eight Mexican traders and steals their goods, valued at one thousand dollars.
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.303308000000
Longitude: -98.124258000000
Longitude: -98.124258000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:282.
Joseph M. Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier 1836-1841 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 424.
Event Type:
Date: July 24, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A company of 50 Texans and 10 Lipan Indians led by Jack Hays pursues a Comanche raiding party to the Llano River west of San Antonio. The Comanches withdraw after a running fight. John Slein, a merchant volunteer from Bexar, is killed.
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.487412000000
Longitude: -99.975014000000
Longitude: -99.975014000000
Citation:
Charles A. Gulick, ed. The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (Austin: A.C. Baldwin, 1921), 4/1:234.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:321-326.
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