Longitude: -97.656830000000
- Travis
An Anglo-American surveying party is attacked by 60 Indians on Walnut Creek above Pecan Spring, in present-day northeast Austin. One surveyor, Christian Strother, is killed.
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 23-25.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 8-12.
Surveyors Original Title: Brownsville, Texas
Image Type: Steel engraving on paper
Creator: James D. Smillie after John E. Weyss
Collection: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
Image Citation:
Emory, William H., Report of the United States Mexican Boundary Survey, Made under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior, 34th Congress, 1st Session, House Exec. Doc. No. 135 (3 vols.; Washington, D.C.: Cornelius Wendell, 1857), vol. 1, part 1, opp. p. 60.
Longitude: -97.656830000000
- Travis
An Anglo-American surveying party is attacked by 60 Indians on Walnut Creek above Pecan Spring, in present-day northeast Austin. One surveyor, Christian Strother, is killed.
- Unknown Tribe
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 23-25.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 8-12.
Surveyors Original Title: Brownsville, Texas
Image Type: Steel engraving on paper
Creator: James D. Smillie after John E. Weyss
Collection: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
Image Citation:
Emory, William H., Report of the United States Mexican Boundary Survey, Made under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior, 34th Congress, 1st Session, House Exec. Doc. No. 135 (3 vols.; Washington, D.C.: Cornelius Wendell, 1857), vol. 1, part 1, opp. p. 60.