John R. Cunningham’s Frontier Regiment skirmishes with Comanches eight miles west of Frio River and eight miles above the Old San Antonio Road. An unknown number of Indians are killed and wounded, and their supplies seized.
Date: July 4, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.362061000000
Longitude: -99.718221000000
Longitude: -99.718221000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, July 29, 1840.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:68-71.
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: August 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 attack Kenney’s Fort, a small fort on Brushy Creek, east of present-day Round Rock. One Texan, Joseph Weeks, is killed, and another wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.511758000000
Longitude: -97.637282000000
Longitude: -97.637282000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 265-266.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3: 78-79.
Event Type:
Date: August 5, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Joel Ponton and Tucker Foley of Lavaca are attacked by Comanches at Ponton Creek, on the road from Columbus to Gonzales. Foley is killed; Ponton escapes.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.441650000000
Longitude: -97.103225000000
Longitude: -97.103225000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 79.
Event Type:
Date: August 6, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Penateka chief Buffalo Hump leads an estimated one thousand Comanches, including 500 warriors, down the Guadalupe River valley. A total of 23 residents are killed in the vicinity of Victoria during the course of the day, including seven slaves. An estimated 1,500 horses are stolen.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.828399000000
Longitude: -97.009904000000
Longitude: -97.009904000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 79.
Craig H. Roell, "Linnville Raid of 1840," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/btl01), accessed July 14, 2016.
Event Type:
Date: August 7, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White After attacking the town of Victoria on August 6, a large force of Comanches follows the Guadalupe River towards the coast, killing a wagoner on Placedo Creek.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.704314000000
Longitude: -96.700360000000
Longitude: -96.700360000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 79.
Craig H. Roell, "Linnville Raid of 1840," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/btl01), accessed July 14, 2016.
Date: August 8, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Following an attack on Victoria on August 6, a large force of Penateka Comanches proceeds to the coast, killing three men, two of them slaves, north of Linnville on Lavaca Bay.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.659738000000
Longitude: -96.635841000000
Longitude: -96.635841000000
Citation:
Craig H. Roell, "Linnville Raid of 1840,"Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/btl01), accessed July 14, 2016.
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 80.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co.,
1935), 26-27.
Event Type:
Date: August 9, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Three Texas scouts are chased by the large Comanche war party that had sacked the port of Linnville one day earlier. One Texan is killed, another seriously wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.905556000000
Longitude: -96.767194000000
Longitude: -96.767194000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:136.
Event Type:
Date: August 12, 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 Following the Comanche raids on the towns of Victoria and Linnville, a Texas volunteer force is organized, engaging the Comanches at Plum Creek, near present-day Lockhart. One Texan volunteer and one female captive are killed. Approximately forty Comanches are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 29.881767000000
Longitude: -97.669383000000
Longitude: -97.669383000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 81-82.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co.,
1935), 28-31.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:136.
Z. N. Morrell, Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness (Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1872), p. 123-131.
Event Type:
Date: September 1, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Michael Nash, a carpenter, is killed by Indians, probably Comanches, three miles outside of Bastrop.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.095425000000
Longitude: -97.328520000000
Longitude: -97.328520000000
Citation:
John Holland Jenkins, Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Austin: UT Press), 104.
Event Type:
Date: Fall 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.422377000000
Longitude: -98.496649000000
Longitude: -98.496649000000
Citation:
Charles A. Gulick, ed. The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (Austin: A.C. Baldwin, 1921), 4/1: 231.
Event Type:
Date: Fall, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Capt. George Howard and fifteen men pursue a Comanche raiding party in response to the killing of two San Antonio residents. Four Comanches are killed; two Texans are wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.439914000000
Longitude: -98.631160000000
Longitude: -98.631160000000
Citation:
Charles A. Gulick, ed. The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (Austin: A.C. Baldwin, 1921), 4/1: 231.
Event Type:
Date: October 12-13, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Maj. George Howard leads an expedition of 180 men to the upper Colorado River. His men burn a Comanche village at the headwaters of Las Moras Creek. Eight Comanches are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.366667000000
Longitude: -100.383333000000
Longitude: -100.383333000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:141-142.
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 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 19, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White The father-in-law of Judge James Smith is killed by Indians (probably Comanches) while cutting down a bee tree four miles south of Austin
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.185597000000
Longitude: -97.741805000000
Longitude: -97.741805000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co.,
1935), 141.
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 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: January 21, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White James Smith, chief justice of Travis County, is killed by Comanches while searching for hogs in the woods outside of Austin. His son, Fayette, is captured, but ransomed in New Mexico a few months later.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.274852000000
Longitude: -97.762639000000
Longitude: -97.762639000000
Citation:
Col. Wilson T. Davidson, “A Comanche Prisoner in 1841,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 45, pp. 335-42.
Event Type:
Date: Spring 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American A Mexican cartman is killed outside San Antonio while taking his oxen out to pasture.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.431049000000
Longitude: -98.492219000000
Longitude: -98.492219000000
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), 45.
Event Type:
Date: March 31, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Following a rash of horse thefts in Austin, Capt. George M. Dolson and seventeen members of the Travis County Guards pursue a party of Comanches to the Pedernales River, in present-day Blanco County. Eight Comanches are killed; Capt. Dolson is severely wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.477806000000
Longitude: -98.293240000000
Longitude: -98.293240000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:204-207.
Event Type:
Date: April 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Two Mexicans are killed by Comanches near José Antonio Navarro’s ranch on the east bank of the Guadalupe River, near present-day New Braunfels.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.012373000000
Longitude: -98.525708000000
Longitude: -98.525708000000
Citation:
Joseph M. Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier 1836-1841 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 411.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:213.
Event Type: