GeoCoords:
Latitude: 27.854596000000
Longitude: -97.587571000000
Longitude: -97.587571000000
County:
- Nueces
Date:
March 26, 1875
Time Period:
Description:
Mexican men kill John Smith at Thomas Noake’s store in Nuecestown (northwest Corpus Christi). They are pursued by an Anglo posse and engage in a shootout outside of town. One Anglo is killed in the fighting.
Race or Ethnicity:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Handbook of Texas Online, Cynthia E. Orozco, "NUECESTOWN RAID OF 1875," accessed September 04, 2018,http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jcnnt.
William M. Hager, “The Nuecestown Raid of 1875: A Border Incident,” Arizona and the West 1 (Autumn 1959): 264-266.
Thomas J. Noakes, III Creator: Self portrait, 1865
Image Viewed: https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/3030048/person/-1785652890/media/3208efd2-b83f-42e3-8ae1-301107fb15db?_phsrc=yqU312&usePUBJs=true&galleryindex=1&sort=-created
Image Accessed: May 24, 2022
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 27.854596000000
Longitude: -97.587571000000
Longitude: -97.587571000000
County:
- Nueces
Date:
March 26, 1875
Event Description:
Mexican men kill John Smith at Thomas Noake’s store in Nuecestown (northwest Corpus Christi). They are pursued by an Anglo posse and engage in a shootout outside of town. One Anglo is killed in the fighting.
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Handbook of Texas Online, Cynthia E. Orozco, "NUECESTOWN RAID OF 1875," accessed September 04, 2018,http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jcnnt.
William M. Hager, “The Nuecestown Raid of 1875: A Border Incident,” Arizona and the West 1 (Autumn 1959): 264-266.
Thomas J. Noakes, III Creator: Self portrait, 1865
Image Viewed: https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/3030048/person/-1785652890/media/3208efd2-b83f-42e3-8ae1-301107fb15db?_phsrc=yqU312&usePUBJs=true&galleryindex=1&sort=-created
Image Accessed: May 24, 2022