Judge Gabriel Martin is killed by Kiowa Indians on Glass Creek, 15 miles above Washita River (now Lake Texoma). Martin’s son Matthew and a young male slave, Hardy, are captured, but escape and return home a few months later.
Date: May 15, 1834
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.847483000000
Longitude: -96.685248000000
Longitude: -96.685248000000
Citation:
Pat B. Clark, The History of Clarksville and Old Red River County (Dallas: Mathis, Van Nort & Co., 1937), 21-22.
R. L. Jones and Andrew Davis, “Folk Life in Early Texas: The Autobiography of Andrew Davis,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 43, no. 1 (October 1939): 162.
Christopher Long, "Martin, Gabriel N.," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fmabb), accessed October 31, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Event Type:
Date: August 27, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Francis Keenan, a member of the Santa Fe Expedition, wanders off from the main group of Texans near the Cap Rock Escarpment and is never found. He is presumably killed by Kiowa Indians, who were following the expedition as it headed west.
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 34.432358000000
Longitude: -101.024202000000
Longitude: -101.024202000000
Citation:
Noel M. Loomis. The Texan-Santa Fe Pioneers (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958), 62.
Event Type:
Date: August 30, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of Kiowa Indians attacks five members of the Santa Fe Expedition who had gone in search of water near Camp Resolution, on Quitaque Creek. At least ten Indians are also reported killed.
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 34.925055000000
Longitude: -101.666388000000
Longitude: -101.666388000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, May 18, 1842
Noel M. Loomis. The Texan-Santa Fe Pioneers (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958), 63-4.
Event Type:
Date: September 1, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Three members of the Santa Fe Expedition stray too far from Camp Resolution, on Quitaque Creek, and do not return, presumably killed by Kiowa Indians.
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 34.305960000000
Longitude: -101.050602000000
Longitude: -101.050602000000
Citation:
Noel M. Loomis. The Texan-Santa Fe Pioneers (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958), 63-4.
Event Type:
Date: September 12, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Three members of the Santa Fe Expedition are attacked by Kiowa Indians while foraging for mesquite beans. One is killed; a second man later dies of his wounds.
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 34.316185000000
Longitude: -101.063776000000
Longitude: -101.063776000000
Citation:
Noel M. Loomis. The Texan-Santa Fe Pioneers (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958), 101-02, 105-06.
Event Type:
Date: September 23, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Three members of the Santa Expedition are foraging for berries ten miles east of present-day Hereford. They do not return to camp, presumably killed by Kiowa Indians.
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 34.812972000000
Longitude: -102.228012000000
Longitude: -102.228012000000
Citation:
Noel M. Loomis. The Texan-Santa Fe Pioneers (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958), 108.
Event Type:
Date: Late July 1844
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A party of fifty Comanches steal several dozen horses at Kinney’s Ranch, Corpus Christi. Four Indians are killed. Other reports indicate that the Indians are Kiowas.
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.793869000000
Longitude: -97.396357000000
Longitude: -97.396357000000
Citation:
Clarksville Northern Standard, August 7, 1844.
Lorna Geer Sheppard, ed., An Editor’s View of Early Texas (Austin: Eakin Press, 1998), 61-62.
Event Type:
Date: February 7, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Comanches and Kiowas raid the Lemley farm, ten miles west of present-day Stephenville. Four women are captured; two are subsequently killed. The remaining two, Nancy and Hulda Lemley, are released two days later.
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 32.244448000000
Longitude: -98.378476000000
Longitude: -98.378476000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 18-19.
Gregory Michno and Susan Michno, A Fate Worse than Death: Indian Captivities in the West, 1830-1885 (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2007), 182-183.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 507-508.
Event Type:
Date: February 8, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Having raided the Lemley homestead the day before, a band of Comanches and Kiowas kill two brothers, Angus and Colin Monroe, on Spring Creek in Bosque County, eight miles west of present-day Meridian
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.900612000000
Longitude: -97.794927000000
Longitude: -97.794927000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 20.
Gregory Michno and Susan Michno, A Fate Worse than Death: Indian Captivities in the West, 1830-1885 (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2007), 183.
Event Type:
Date: February 9, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Comanches and Kiowas kill James Knight at Neil’s Creek, about four miles south of Cranfills Gap.
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.713526000000
Longitude: -97.840337000000
Longitude: -97.840337000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 20.
Event Type:
Date: February 10, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Comanches and Kiowas attack Baptist ministers Jesse J. Griffith and John C. White three miles west of Turnersville, on the Bosque River. The two men escape but Griffith dies of his wounds nine days later.
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.618185000000
Longitude: -97.789892000000
Longitude: -97.789892000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 20-21.
Event Type:
Date: February 11, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Comanches and Kiowas kill Benjamin Van Hook on the headwaters of the North Fork of the San Gabriel River, a little more than three miles southeast of present-day Lake Victor.
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.874866000000
Longitude: -98.154866000000
Longitude: -98.154866000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 21.
Event Type:
Date: August 8, 1864
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A band of Kiowas attack the homestead of Matthew Taylor, killing two family members, a man and a woman, on the Pedernales River, near present-day Harper. Taylor’s daughter and four children are captured.
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 30.276527780000
Longitude: -99.219722220000
Longitude: -99.219722220000
Citation:
Handbook of Texas Online, Ola Mae Hopf, "HARPER, TX," accessed October 10, 2018, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hlh25.
Event Type:
Date: August 9, 1864
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Kiowas, Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Lt. Singleton Gilbert and fifteen Texas militiamen encounter 35 Kiowas and Comanches at Ellison Springs, near present-day Gorman. The militia attack but are repelled by the Indians, who kill three militiamen and wound three others.
Tribe: Kiowas, Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.240414000000
Longitude: -98.633665000000
Longitude: -98.633665000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 149.
Event Type:
Date: October 13, 1864
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of about 500 Comanches and Kiowas, including Chief Satanta, raid ranches along the Elm Creek tributary of the Brazos River, killing seven settlers and taking several captives. Comanche chief Little Buffalo and some of his men are killed during the raid.
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.004487000000
Longitude: -98.668308000000
Longitude: -98.668308000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 155-156.
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 182-190.
Event Type:
Date: November 25, 1864
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American In one of the largest battles fought between whites and Indians on the Great Plains, a force of more than 300 U.S. cavalry, under Col. Christopher "Kit" Carson, locate and attack a Kiowa and Comanche camp off the Canadian River near present-day Borger.
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 35.906114000000
Longitude: -101.112565000000
Longitude: -101.112565000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 156-157.
Event Type:
Date: August 1865
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Unidentified Indians, probably Comanches and/or Kiowas, kill Phil Runnels at Reynolds Creek, near Waco, while he was cutting wood.
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.617110000000
Longitude: -99.243718000000
Longitude: -99.243718000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 222.
Event Type:
Date: August 8, 1865
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Twenty Kiowas attack settlers living near the junction of the Pedernales River and Live Oak Creek in Gillespie County. They kill two settlers and take five captives—a woman and four children. All five of the captives are eventually ransomed.
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 30.222845000000
Longitude: -98.907090000000
Longitude: -98.907090000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 217-218.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 646-648.
Event Type:
Date: September 20, 1865
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Kiowas take James and William Ball, both aged seven, into captivity ten miles northwest of Decatur in Wise County.
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.321879000000
Longitude: -97.724053000000
Longitude: -97.724053000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 225-226.
Event Type:
Date: April 1866
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Forty Comanches and Kiowas raid Waggoner’s Ranch, about twelve miles south of Vernon. A herder, George Halsell, is killed.
Tribe: Comanches, Kiowas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.974339000000
Longitude: -99.232048000000
Longitude: -99.232048000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 252-253.
Event Type: