John Edwards, a wagoner, killed by Kichai (Wichita) Indians near Bastrop on the road to Washington on the Brazos.
Date: March 21, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Kichais
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tribe: Kichais
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.097356000000
Longitude: -97.320638000000
Longitude: -97.320638000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 26.
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 10:394.
“Murder by the Indians!” The Texas Republican, March 21, 1835.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 231.
Event Type:
Date: May 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Kichais
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Searching for stolen horses, a company of two dozen settlers led by Major William Oldham attacks and burns a Kichai (Wichita) village on Boggy Creek, a tributary of the Trinity River, five miles south of present-day Centerville. Two Kichai Indians are killed.
Tribe: Kichais
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.211879000000
Longitude: -95.982495000000
Longitude: -95.982495000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 10:393-94.
Event Type:
Date: July 12, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tawakonis (Wichita) living near the headwaters of the Navasota River (near present day Mount Calm) repulse an attack by Robert M. Coleman and 20-25 settlers. One Texan is killed (John Williams), and four wounded. Two Tawakonis are killed.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.752773000000
Longitude: -96.887098000000
Longitude: -96.887098000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:31.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 218-19.
Event Type:
Date: August-September 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White John H. Moore leads 175 colonists on a two month campaign against the Tawakonis (Wichita). Skirmishes with Tawakonis near the headwaters of the Trinity River near present-day Dallas result in two Indians killed, including a female prisoner.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 32.677784000000
Longitude: -96.529611000000
Longitude: -96.529611000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:31.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:21-29.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 218-19.
Henderson K. Yoakum, History of Texas: from its First Settlement in 1865 to its Annexation to the United States in 1846 (Austin: Steck Co., 1953), 1:352.
Event Type:
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 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).
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: June 4, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Seventeen Anglo settlers are attacked by a party of 50 Kichai (Wichita) and Tawakonis (Wichita) on the road to Nashville near Smith’s Crossing of the Little River, near present-day Cameron. Parson Crouch and Robert Davidson are killed; cattle are killed or driven off.
Tribe: Kichais, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.854434000000
Longitude: -96.933624000000
Longitude: -96.933624000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas. (Austin: L. E.Daniel, 1896), 43-44.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1: 143-46.
Event Type:
Date: June 4, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Henry Walker farmhouse is attacked by Wichitas - Kichai and Tawakonis, eight miles east of present day Cameron; no known casualties.
Tribe: Kichais, Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.829772000000
Longitude: -96.857424000000
Longitude: -96.857424000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas. (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 146-47.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:43-44.
Date: July 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wichitas, Caddos, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Caddo and Wichita Indians reportedly kill nine Anglos near a Delaware village on the Sulphur River, twenty miles north of present-day Leonard. Comanches are also believed to be involved in the attack.
Tribe: Wichitas, Caddos, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 33.441221000000
Longitude: -96.058956000000
Longitude: -96.058956000000
Citation:
H. Allen Anderson, “The Delaware and Shawnee Indians and the Republic of Texas, 1820-1845,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 94, no. 2 (Oct 1990): 240-241.
Event Type:
Date: April 17, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of 100 Tawakonis (Wichita) steal 32 horses from Juan Seguín’s rangers near Las Cuevas (Natural Bridge Caverns) north of San Antonio. Seguín’s men pursue and engage the Tawakonis and retrieve horses with no losses to either side.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.692175000000
Longitude: -98.342417000000
Longitude: -98.342417000000
Citation:
Juan Nepomuceno Seguín, A Revolution Remembered: the Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguín. Jesús F. de la Teja, ed. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2002), 169.
Event Type:
Date: October 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos, Wichitas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American One Texan (Lyons) is killed, and horses stolen near the headwaters of the Navidad River, 12 miles south of LaGrange. Caddos and Wichitas are suspected.
Tribe: Caddos, Wichitas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.619647000000
Longitude: -96.892436000000
Longitude: -96.892436000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, October 28, 1837
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 3, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Lieutenant A. B. Van Benthuysen and 18 Texas Rangers encounter a party of Cherokees led by several Kichai (Wichita) scouts en route to trade with the Comanches near the forks of the Brazos River (the confluence of Salt Fork and Double Mountain Fork), 50 miles west of present-day Throckmorton.
Tribe: Kichais, Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.267895000000
Longitude: -99.999832000000
Longitude: -99.999832000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:267-68.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 143.
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: October 12, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kickapoos, Wichitas, Caddos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American, White Two miles west of present-day Palestine, a force of 175 militia men under Leonard H. Mabbitt is attacked by Mexican and Indian (Kickapoo, Wichita, and Caddo) supporters of the Córdova rebellion. Four rangers and five Indians (including a Caddo chief) are killed.
Tribe: Kickapoos, Wichitas, Caddos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.750332000000
Longitude: -95.694744000000
Longitude: -95.694744000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:64-67.
Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte. The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar. Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 2:256-57.
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: August 26, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A spy company under the command of George B. Erath encounters two Kichai (Wichita) Indians skinning a buffalo on the Bosque River, a few miles northwest of present-day Waco. One Indian is killed; the other is severely wounded.
Tribe: Kichais
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.657827000000
Longitude: -97.470845000000
Longitude: -97.470845000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:133-34
Event Type: