GeoCoords:
Latitude: 30.826739000000
Longitude: -100.109790000000
Longitude: -100.109790000000
County:
- Menard
Date:
July 3, 1873
Time Period:
Description:
Comanches attack a trading party, including Edward Tschirhart and his brothers Joe, Louis and Nic, in the vicinity of Fort McKavett, twenty-one miles southwest of Menard. One Indian is killed.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Andrew Jackson Sowell, Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas (Austin: Ben C. Jones & Co., 1900), 525-526.
Michael L. Nunnally, American Indian Wars: A Chronology of Confrontations Between Native Peoples and Settlers and the United States Military, 1500s-1901 (Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2007), 132.
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 30.826739000000
Longitude: -100.109790000000
Longitude: -100.109790000000
County:
- Menard
Date:
July 3, 1873
Event Description:
Comanches attack a trading party, including Edward Tschirhart and his brothers Joe, Louis and Nic, in the vicinity of Fort McKavett, twenty-one miles southwest of Menard. One Indian is killed.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Andrew Jackson Sowell, Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas (Austin: Ben C. Jones & Co., 1900), 525-526.
Michael L. Nunnally, American Indian Wars: A Chronology of Confrontations Between Native Peoples and Settlers and the United States Military, 1500s-1901 (Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2007), 132.