Longitude: -95.982495000000
- Leon
Searching for stolen horses, a company of two dozen settlers led by Major William Oldham attacks and burns a Kichai (Wichita) village on Boggy Creek, a tributary of the Trinity River, five miles south of present-day Centerville. Two Kichai Indians are killed. Benjamin Castleman is killed by a sentinel later that night.
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 10:393-94.
Tawakoni (Wichita) Indians Original Title: Tahuacanos
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Lino Sánchez y Tapia after Jean Louis Berlandier
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Image Citation:
Berlandier, Jean Louis, The Indians of Texas in 1830. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1969, Plate 13
Longitude: -95.982495000000
- Leon
Searching for stolen horses, a company of two dozen settlers led by Major William Oldham attacks and burns a Kichai (Wichita) village on Boggy Creek, a tributary of the Trinity River, five miles south of present-day Centerville. Two Kichai Indians are killed. Benjamin Castleman is killed by a sentinel later that night.
- Wichitas
- Kichais
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 10:393-94.
Tawakoni (Wichita) Indians Original Title: Tahuacanos
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Lino Sánchez y Tapia after Jean Louis Berlandier
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Image Citation:
Berlandier, Jean Louis, The Indians of Texas in 1830. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1969, Plate 13