Maj. Sterling Ross reports Comanches and Mexicans attacking traders along Rio Frio near Gonzales.
Date: September 11, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American, White Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.501626000000
Longitude: -97.452493000000
Longitude: -97.452493000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, September 11, 1839.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-September 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Comanches steal 200 horses from New La Labadie (another name for Goliad). A Mexican is scalped, but lives.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.668325000000
Longitude: -97.388327000000
Longitude: -97.388327000000
Citation:
New Orleans Picayune, October 12, 1839
Event Type:
Date: Fall 1839
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, attack a surveying party near San Antonio, between the Medina and San Geronimo Rivers. All are killed except one chain bearer, who escapes.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.536199000000
Longitude: -98.886189000000
Longitude: -98.886189000000
Citation:
Rena Maverick Green, Samuel Maverick, Texan: 1803-1870; A Collection of Letters, Journals, and Memoirs (San Antonio, 1952), 128.
Event Type:
Date: October 1, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, Hispanic, Native American, White The surveying party and family of land-speculator John Webster is attacked by Comanches near the headwaters of Brushy Creek in present-day Leander. Webster’s wife Dolly, her daughter Virginia, and son Booker are captured.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 30.556520000000
Longitude: -97.782173000000
Longitude: -97.782173000000
Citation:
Benjamin, Dolbeare, A Narrative of the Captivity and Suffering of Dolly Webster Among the Camanche Indians in Texas: With an Account of the Massacre of John Webster and His Party, as Related by Mrs. Webster (New Haven: Yale University Library), 1986.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:290-293.
Event Type:
Date: October 24, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Texas Army unit under Capt. George Howard fight a band of Comanches near Opossum Creek, ten miles northeast of present-day Georgetown. Three Comanches are killed; no Texan casualties are reported.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.760627000000
Longitude: -97.594665000000
Longitude: -97.594665000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:307-309.
New Orleans Picayune, November 27, 1839
Event Type:
Date: November 2, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White On the Pedernales River, Galveston volunteers under Capt. William Wilson fight a band of 25 Comanches believed to have been involved in the October Webster attack. Ten to twelve Comanches are reported killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.260499000000
Longitude: -98.575873000000
Longitude: -98.575873000000
Citation:
J. W. Benedict, “Diary of a Campaign against the Comanches,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 32, no. 4 (April 1929): 309.
Telegraph and Texas Register, December 11, 1839.
Event Type:
Date: Winter 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American, White Eighteen San Antonio residents are killed--nine Anglos and nine Mexicans--probably by Comanches, a few miles west of San Antonio. One Anglo, Mr. Campbell, survives.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.472391000000
Longitude: -98.839881000000
Longitude: -98.839881000000
Citation:
Rena Maverick Green, Samuel Maverick, Texan: 1803-1870; A Collection of Letters, Journals, and Memoirs (San Antonio: 1952), 105.
Event Type:
Date: January 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Upon the death of the wife of a Comanche chief, the Indians kill Rhoda Putnam at one of their rancherias, possibly near present-day Big Spring, as a sacrifice, burying them together.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 32.224132000000
Longitude: -101.515796000000
Longitude: -101.515796000000
Citation:
Benjamin Dolbeare, A Narative of the Captivity and Suffering of Dolly Webster… (New Haven: Yale University Press. 1986), 21.
Event Type:
Date: January 2, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Two deserters of Edward Burleson’s Frontier Regiment are found killed, probably by Comanche Indians, near the fork of the Leon and Little rivers.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.987355000000
Longitude: -97.402793000000
Longitude: -97.402793000000
Citation:
Clifford Caldwell and Ron DeLord, Texas Lawmen, 1825-1899 (Charleston: History Press, 2011), 271
Event Type:
Date: February 28, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A small party of Texas troops is attacked by Indians, probably Comanches, two and a half miles southeast of San Antonio. Two Texans are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.385888000000
Longitude: -98.465277000000
Longitude: -98.465277000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:12.
Event Type:
Date: March 3, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Tonkawas, Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A man named Kaughman is killed by Comanches while hunting on Williamson’s Creek, a fork of Onion Creek, five miles west of Austin. Tonkawas are initially blamed for the attack.
Tribe: Tonkawas, Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.310700000000
Longitude: -97.787782000000
Longitude: -97.787782000000
Citation:
Brazos Courier, March 3, 1840
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:16.
Event Type:
Date: March 13, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Two Austin residents, a butcher and an English laborer, are killed in the recently-establish city by Comanches.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.267200000000
Longitude: -97.743100000000
Longitude: -97.743100000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:17.
Event Type:
Date: March 19, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Violence erupts on the streets of San Antonio when peace talks break down between the Lamar administration and the Penateka Comanches. One of the negotiators for the Lamar administration was Hugh McLeod. Thirty-five Comanches, including Penateka head chief Muguara, are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 29.424358000000
Longitude: -98.493223000000
Longitude: -98.493223000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:21-31.
Handbook of Texas Online, Jodye Lynn Dickson Schilz, "Council House Fight," accessed July 13, 2016, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/btc01.
Event Type:
Date: Late March, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White In response to the deaths of thirty-five members of the tribe at the Council House Fight in San Antonio on March 19, the Comanches torture and put to death a dozen Anglo captives.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.211555000000
Longitude: -98.835833000000
Longitude: -98.835833000000
Citation:
George M. Maverick, Rena M. Green and Maverick F. Fisher, eds., Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick: A Journal of Early Texas (Maverick Books, 2010), 48.
Event Type:
Date: June 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanches pretending to be friendly Tonkawas kill six male youths and steal their horses near San Juan Capistrano mission outside San Antonio. Another youth is captured but escapes.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.332215000000
Longitude: -98.455698000000
Longitude: -98.455698000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 91.
Event Type:
Date: June 10, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Joseph Rogers is killed by Comanches between Coleman Fort and Hornsby’s Station, in present-day northeast Austin.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.276935000000
Longitude: -97.687471000000
Longitude: -97.687471000000
Citation:
John W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 261-262.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:49.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 202.
Event Type:
Date: June 18, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanches kill James Campbell, a founder of the town of Seguin, one mile south of San Antonio.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.746227000000
Longitude: -98.125021000000
Longitude: -98.125021000000
Citation:
Texas Sentinel (Austin), June 27, 1840
Event Type:
Date: June 21, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Several men are killed between Guadalupe River and San Antonio, including a young man from the Lockhart family. Josiah Power is captured but escapes.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.476629000000
Longitude: -98.132458000000
Longitude: -98.132458000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:65.
Event Type:
Date: Summer 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanches kill Leander C. Cunningham on the San Marcos River.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.682932000000
Longitude: -97.704149000000
Longitude: -97.704149000000
Citation:
John H. Jenkins, Edward Burleson: Texas Frontier Leader (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1990), 241.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co.,
1935), 50-51.
Event Type:
Date: July 4, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, Native American A young female slave owned by William Clopton is killed by Comanches while bringing cattle in from pasture on Gilleland Creek, twelve miles north of Austin, near present-day Pflugerville.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 30.453058000000
Longitude: -97.631911000000
Longitude: -97.631911000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:66.
Event Type: