Eli Chandler’s Robertson County militiamen encounter a hunting party of sixty Indians, including Shawnees and Ionis (Caddo), in the northwest Cross Timbers region. Four Indians are killed; fourteen are taken prisoner.
Date: June 9, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Shawnees, Caddos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tribe: Shawnees, Caddos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.494057000000
Longitude: -95.688152000000
Longitude: -95.688152000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:257-258.
Event Type:
Date: August 22, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Robertson County volunteers are attacked by Indians on patrol 14 miles from Franklin, en route to Fort Parker. One Texas, George W. Heard, is killed.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.155798000000
Longitude: -96.315575000000
Longitude: -96.315575000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:315-316.
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 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 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 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Separated from his company, Capt. Jack Hays manages to successfully hold off a large number of Comanches from atop Enchanted Rock, in Llano County, until he is rescued by his men. Several Indians are believed to have been killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.507547000000
Longitude: -98.818735000000
Longitude: -98.818735000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:342-346.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 74-5.
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 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 4, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American A Mexican scout on the Santa Fe Expedition is killed by Indians a few hundred yards from Camp Resolution, on Quitaque Creek.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 34.294290000000
Longitude: -101.059518000000
Longitude: -101.059518000000
Citation:
Noel M. Loomis. The Texan-Santa Fe Pioneers (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958), 98.
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 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 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: October 2, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Lipans, Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Austin resident James Boyce is killed near Austin by unknown Indians near Walnut Creek. Although some residents suspected Lipan Apaches of the murder, no action was taken, as a result of their years of cooperation with Anglo-Texans.
Tribe: Lipans, Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.271892000000
Longitude: -97.846513000000
Longitude: -97.846513000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:353.
Event Type:
Date: December 25, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Three rangers from Bird’s Fort are attacked by Indians east of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River, in present-day Carrollton. One Texan and one Indian are killed.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 32.948914000000
Longitude: -96.938029000000
Longitude: -96.938029000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:350, 352.
Event Type:
Date: January 1,1842
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, White A party of seven Comanches is pursued and overtaken by eight Mexicans near the mouth of the Medina River. Three Indians and one Mexican are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.725114000000
Longitude: -99.076152000000
Longitude: -99.076152000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, March 2, 1842
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: June 1842
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Three men are pursued by a party of five to six Indians, believed to be Cherokees, on the Trinity River, twenty-three miles southwest of present-day Crockett. One, Thomas N. B. Greer, is killed.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.085808000000
Longitude: -95.735607000000
Longitude: -95.735607000000
Citation:
Handbook of Texas; W. D. Wood, “Sketch of the Early Settlement of Leon County,” Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, 4, 1901, 207.
Telegraph and Texas Register, June 29, 1842.
Event Type:
Date: June 12, 1842
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, White William H. Patton and another man are killed by a party of Mexicans while bathing in the San Antonio River near Patton’s home, thirty miles south of San Antonio.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.948037000000
Longitude: -98.494719000000
Longitude: -98.494719000000
Citation:
Louis W. Kemp, “William Hester Patton,” Typescript, San Jacinto Museum of History
Event Type:
Date: August 1, 1842
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A bear hunting party of ten men is attacked on Barton Springs, near Austin. Captain George M. Dolson and John R. Black are killed.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.290542000000
Longitude: -97.901565000000
Longitude: -97.901565000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, August 17, 1842
John Holland Jenkins, Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Austin: UT Press), 104.
Event Type:
Date: Late August 1842
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Tonkawas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White An argument over a tin cup between a Tonkawa Indian and a Bastrop resident results in the Indian’s death.
Tribe: Tonkawas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.108354000000
Longitude: -97.313624000000
Longitude: -97.313624000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, September 7, 1842
Event Type:
Date: Fall 1843
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Five men are attacked by a party of Lipan Apaches along Shoal Creek, north of Austin. Two settlers are killed.
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.294202000000
Longitude: -97.750798000000
Longitude: -97.750798000000
Citation:
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 282.
Event Type:
Date: 1844
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A company of thirty Texans pursue a party of Indians along Cedar Creek, north of present-day Caldwell. Two Texans, Reed and Bingham, are killed.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.661414000000
Longitude: -96.731450000000
Longitude: -96.731450000000
Citation:
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 601.
Event Type:
Date: April 6, 1844
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Dr. Thomas Kenney and two other men leave Kenney Fort, a stockade near Brushy Creek, in present-day Round Rock, on April 6. Their bodies are discovered a few days later. A party of Caddos is suspected.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.520171000000
Longitude: -97.747567000000
Longitude: -97.747567000000
Citation:
“Kenney Fort,” roundrocktexas.gov (Accessed July 16, 2018)
Event Type: