One Karankawa killed by two colonists near the mouth of the Colorado.
Date: Early 1824
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.247303000000
Longitude: -97.625370000000
Longitude: -97.625370000000
Event Type:
Date: 1824
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Colonists at Bailey’s Prairie (between present day Angleton and West Columbia) kill several Karankawas seeking to buy ammunition and supplies
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.148795000000
Longitude: -95.493512000000
Longitude: -95.493512000000
Citation:
Henderson K. Yoakum, History of Texas: From its First Settlement in 1685 to its Annexation to the United States in 1846 (Austin: Steck, 1953), 224.
Event Type:
Date: December 6-7, 1831
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American A 35-man presidial company skirmishes with and disperses a group of Indians, probably Comanches, on the outskirts of San Antonio. No report of casualties.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.410673000000
Longitude: -98.694340000000
Longitude: -98.694340000000
Citation:
Manuel Rudencindo Barragan to Antonio Elosua, November 5 1831, Bexar Archives, Dolph Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Event Type:
Date: September 30, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Alabama/Coushatta
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Coushatta Indian killed by Anglo-Texans at Gonzales.
Tribe: Alabama/Coushatta
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.493164000000
Longitude: -97.441444000000
Longitude: -97.441444000000
Citation:
John H. Jenkins, ed., The Papers of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 (Austin: Presidial Press, 1973), 2:5.
Event Type:
Date: Summer 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Anglo settlers John Marlin, Laban Menefee and Jarrett Menefee kill four Indians five miles above the Brazos Falls, near present-day Bucksnort.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.309752000000
Longitude: -96.996221000000
Longitude: -96.996221000000
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, ed. Matt Bradley (Tioga: The Herald Company, 1912), 198.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 232.
Event Type:
Date: August 22, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Two Texas militiamen serving under Captain John Pierson are killed in a fight with Comanches on Coleto Creek, seven miles southwest of Victoria.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.720862000000
Longitude: -97.171201000000
Longitude: -97.171201000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:158.
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 (includes Anglo-American, European) 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 (includes Anglo-American, European) 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: May 14, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Manuel Flores and fourteen Mexicans en route to East Texas to support the Córdova Rebellion kill an American named Ballender and three Mexicans on the road between San Antonio and Seguin.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.485852000000
Longitude: -98.205575000000
Longitude: -98.205575000000
Citation:
Joseph Milton Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 131-2.
Event Type:
Date: June 17, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos, Cherokees
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) In an attempt to support Vicente Córdova, who would lead a revolt against the Republic of Texas later that summer, Julián Pedro Miracle leads a force consisting of roughly 100 Mexican soldiers and 22 Indians (Cherokees and Caddos) from Matamoros into Texas.
Tribe: Caddos, Cherokees
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 28.371954000000
Longitude: -97.485563000000
Longitude: -97.485563000000
Citation:
Joseph Milton Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 117-118.
Senate Executive Documents, No. 14, “Memorandum Book,” 32 Congress, 2nd session, 15.
Event Type:
Date: June 23 or 24, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Manuel Savariego and 200 Mexican defensores (militia) attack a group of Anglo and Mexican traders on the road from Goliad to Copano Bay. Two wagoners, Putman and Harris, are shot and killed.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.357443000000
Longitude: -97.261980000000
Longitude: -97.261980000000
Citation:
Joseph Milton Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 50.
Telegraph and Texas Register, July 7, 1838.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar.
Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 3:277.
Event Type:
Date: September 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Three Caddos are killed on the Clear Fork of the Trinity River, in present-day Fort Worth.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 32.904166670000
Longitude: -97.406666670000
Longitude: -97.406666670000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar. Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:273-274.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-September 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) As part of Gen. John H. Dyer’s campaign against the Indians of the upper Trinity River, Capt. William B. Stout and his brother Henry Stout engage a party of eight Indians, probably Caddos, on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River, northwest of present-day Dallas, killing one.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.935038000000
Longitude: -96.934637000000
Longitude: -96.934637000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:43.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-September 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Capt. William Scurlock and 12 rangers kill four Caddos in a largely abandoned Caddo village on the upper Sabine River, near present-day Lake Tawakoni. An Indian guide is also killed.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.807105000000
Longitude: -95.901056000000
Longitude: -95.901056000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:43.
Event Type:
Date: October 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American Mexican militia commander Manuel Savariego raids Alexander ranch, 20 miles southwest of San Antonio, and captures Alexander and Mr. Bull, who were subsequently murdered near San Patricio, possibly by Comanches.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.040730000000
Longitude: -98.165980000000
Longitude: -98.165980000000
Citation:
Joseph Milton Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 59.
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 (includes Anglo-American, European) 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: July 15, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Texas troops under Gen. Kelsey H. Douglas and General Tom Rusk engage Chief Bowles’ retreating Cherokees on Battle Creek, west of the Neches River, three and a half miles northwest of present-day Chandler. Eighteen Cherokees and four Texans are reported killed.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.302481000000
Longitude: -95.507301000000
Longitude: -95.507301000000
Citation:
Handbook of Texas Online, “Neches, Battle of The,” accessed June 29, 2016, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qen02. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on May 10, 2016. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:246-251.
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 (includes Anglo-American, European) 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 (includes Anglo-American, European) 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 (includes Anglo-American, European) 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: