A party of fifteen Wacos (Wichitas) or Caddos raid the farm of Joseph Taylor near Three Forks of the Little River, three miles southeast of present-day Belton, burning the cabin and killing livestock. Two Indians are killed. (Note: De Shields attributes the attack to Kickapoos).
Date: November 1, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos, Caddos, Kickapoos
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tribe: Wacos, Caddos, Kickapoos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.973254000000
Longitude: -97.402073000000
Longitude: -97.402073000000
Citation:
James T. De Shields, Border Wars of Texas: being an Authentic and Popular Account, in Chronological Order, of the Long and Bitter Conflict Waged between Savage Indian Tribes and the Pioneer Settlers of Texas, Matt Bradley, ed. (Tioga: The Herald Company, 1912), 132-39.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:42-4.
Telegraph and Texas Register, November 21, 1835.
Event Type:
Date: October 14, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos, Caddos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of 30 Indians chase three men for three miles along the Colorado River near Fort Mina (at Alum Creek, four miles southeast of Bastrop). One man, Joseph Rogers, is killed. Caddos and Wacos (Wichitas) are suspected.
Tribe: Wacos, Caddos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.056652000000
Longitude: -97.219081000000
Longitude: -97.219081000000
Citation:
J. D. Morris, “Indian Depredations,” Telegraph and Texas Register, November 18, 1837.
Date: Mid-October 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos, Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Residents of Bastrop pursue Indians believed to be Caddos and Wacos (Wichitas) suspected in recent theft of herds of horses and cattle. Two or three Indians are killed.
Tribe: Caddos, Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.078587000000
Longitude: -97.296836000000
Longitude: -97.296836000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, October 28, 1837.
Event Type:
Date: November 10, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos, Toweash
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Ten miles south of present-day Windthorst, a party of 18 Texas rangers led by Lieutenant A. B. Van Benthuysen intercept a mixed band of Kichais (Wichita), Toweash and Waco (Wichita) numbering between 150 and 180. Ten rangers and 40 Indians are reported killed.
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos, Toweash
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.576216000000
Longitude: -98.436719000000
Longitude: -98.436719000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002) 1:268-281.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 142-43.
Telegraph and Texas Register, December 23, 1837.
Telegraph and Texas Register, February 3, 1838.
Telegraph and Texas Register, March 17, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-April 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A hunter for surveying parties (Holland), is killed near Fort Parker by Kichais (Wichitas) or Wacos (Wichitas).
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.595014000000
Longitude: -96.531574000000
Longitude: -96.531574000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, April 25, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: April 15, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A mounted party of Kichais (Wichitas) or Wacos (Wichitas) attacks a surveying party near Richland Creek, 12 miles west of present-day Corsicana. Three surveyors are killed: Robert Sparks, Mr. Barry, and Mr. Hunter.
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.100976000000
Longitude: -96.620979000000
Longitude: -96.620979000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:7-8.
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 4:419-20, 4:58-59.
Telegraph and Texas Register, April 25, 1838, May 2, 1838.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 360.
Event Type:
Date: October 8, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos, Kickapoos, Tawakonis, Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of 23 Anglo surveyors is attacked by 300 Indians including Kickapoo, Tawakoni and Waco (Wichita), and Caddo, one mile west of present-day Dawson. At least 16 surveyors and thirty Indians are reported killed.
Tribe: Caddos, Kickapoos, Tawakonis, Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.860766000000
Longitude: -96.829080000000
Longitude: -96.829080000000
Citation:
Jimmy L. Bryan, “More Disastrous than All: The Surveyors’ Fight: 1838,” East Texas Historical Journal, vol. 1, issue 6, 3-14.
Event Type:
Date: March 1-2, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos, Comanches, Tonkawas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Ben McCulloch leads a second unsuccessful expedition to rescue the Lockhart and Putnam children composed of five settlers and 35 Tonkawas. The party encounters a band of Wacos (Wichitas) and Comanches at the headwaters of Peach Creek, seventeen miles northeast of Gonzales, killing four.
Tribe: Wacos, Comanches, Tonkawas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.567448000000
Longitude: -97.284054000000
Longitude: -97.284054000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 73-74.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier:ó Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:179-181.
Event Type:
Date: September 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Anglo settler Henry Earthman is killed by Indians (possibly Wacos) while trying to recover stolen horses near his home, eight miles north of LaGrange, Fayette County.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.023528000000
Longitude: -96.873972000000
Longitude: -96.873972000000
Citation:
Sons of the Republic of Texas (Turner Publishing Company, 2001), 73
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 50-51.
Event Type:
Date: May 21, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Tribe: Wacos Robertson County militiamen plunder a Waco village on Pecan Creek in Wise County, killing four Indians.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 33.205418000000
Longitude: -97.674988000000
Longitude: -97.674988000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:223-226.
Event Type:
Date: March 10, 1842
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Having briefly occupied San Antonio, retreating Mexican troops commanded by Gen. Rafael Vasquez encounter a party of Wichita Indians (Wacos and Tawakonis) on the Medina River. Between eight and ten Indians are killed.
Tribe: Wacos, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.355064000000
Longitude: -98.872582000000
Longitude: -98.872582000000
Citation:
Joseph Milton Nance, Attack and Counter-Attack: The Texas – Mexican Frontier, 1842 (Austin: University of Texas Press), 52.
Event Type:
Date: February 1, 1843
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male, unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, Native American A party of forty Wacos (Wichitas) raid the farm of William Wilson on the Little River, near present-day Cameron. A slave is killed.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male, unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.855159000000
Longitude: -96.970069000000
Longitude: -96.970069000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, February 14, 1844
Event Type:
Date: April 11, 1844
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Waco Indians steal horses at Hill’s Prairie, four miles south of Bastrop, and are pursued by local residents. Six Wacos are killed.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.051527000000
Longitude: -97.292012000000
Longitude: -97.292012000000
Citation:
Clarksville Northern Standard, May 22, 1844.
Lorna Geer Sheppard, ed., An Editor’s View of Early Texas (Austin: Eakin Press, 1998), 63-4.
Event Type:
Date: Late Spring 1844
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Three Anglos are killed by Wichitas (Wacos) while hunting on the San Gabriel River.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.668095000000
Longitude: -97.616443000000
Longitude: -97.616443000000
Citation:
Clarksville Northern Standard, May 29, 1844.
Lorna Geer Sheppard, ed., An Editor’s View of Early Texas (Austin: Eakin Press, 1998), 62-3
Event Type:
Date: June 1844
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Tonkawas, Wacos
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A Tonkawa woman is killed by Wichitas (Wacos) on the Comal River, near the German settlement of New Braunfels.
Tribe: Tonkawas, Wacos
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 29.701398000000
Longitude: -98.119780000000
Longitude: -98.119780000000
Citation:
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers 1844-1845 (Austin: Texas State Library), 2:167.
Event Type:
Date: November 3, 1844
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos, Toweash
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Two Austin youths, fourteen-year-old Emma Simpson and her twelve-year-old brother Thomas, are captured by Wichitas (Wacos and Toweash), 400 yards from the center of Austin. Emma is subsequently killed; Thomas is later returned.
Tribe: Wacos, Toweash
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 30.279228000000
Longitude: -97.769889000000
Longitude: -97.769889000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 101-02.
Senate Executive Documents, No. 14, 32nd Congress, 2nd Session, 133-35.
F. Todd Smith, The Wichita Indians: Traders of Texas and the Southern Plains, 1540-1845 (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2000), 152.
Event Type:
Date: March, 1845
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Three Wichitas (Wacos) are killed near Bastrop by local residents.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.123971000000
Longitude: -97.349115000000
Longitude: -97.349115000000
Citation:
Niles’ National Register, April 12, 1845
Event Type:
Date: May 2, 1845
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Waco Indians kill two men ten miles south of Austin.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.139036000000
Longitude: -97.743180000000
Longitude: -97.743180000000
Citation:
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers 1844-1845 (Austin: Texas State Library), 2:271, 290-92.
Event Type:
Date: October, 1845
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Two Germans, Captain Friedrich von Wrede and Lieutenant Oscar Claren, are killed by Indians, believed to be Wichitas (Wacos), en route to New Braunfels from Austin. Their companion, Wessel, kills one of the Indians, and escapes.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.637303000000
Longitude: -98.152331000000
Longitude: -98.152331000000
Citation:
Ferdinand Roemer, Texas, (Austin: Eakin Press, 1995), 175
R. L. Biesele, The Relations Between the German Settlers and the Indians of Texas, 1844-1960, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 31, no. 2(1927), 120-21.
Event Type:
Date: Early July, 1847
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Wichita Indians (Wacos) kill four Germans surveying on the San Saba River. Comanches are initially blamed for the attack.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.022733000000
Longitude: -99.157957000000
Longitude: -99.157957000000
Citation:
Democratic Telegraph and Texas Register, July 26, 1847
Event Type: