GeoCoords:
Latitude: 33.488947000000
Longitude: -97.560399000000
Longitude: -97.560399000000
County:
- Montague
Date:
June 7, 1868
Time Period:
Description:
Comanches seriously wound two members of the McElroy household and take two of their children into a brief captivity, fifteen miles south of Montague
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 356-358.
Comanche Man Image Type: Photograph
Creator: William P. Bliss
Collection: New York Public Library, Art and Picture Collection
Image Viewed: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-1bb2-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Image Accessed: April 3, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 33.488947000000
Longitude: -97.560399000000
Longitude: -97.560399000000
County:
- Montague
Date:
June 7, 1868
Event Description:
Comanches seriously wound two members of the McElroy household and take two of their children into a brief captivity, fifteen miles south of Montague
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 356-358.
Comanche Man Image Type: Photograph
Creator: William P. Bliss
Collection: New York Public Library, Art and Picture Collection
Image Viewed: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-1bb2-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Image Accessed: April 3, 2019