Longitude: -97.772369000000
- Nueces
A party of 60 Comanches (part of a larger group estimated to be about 400), attack two families and several men, former members of the Beale Colony, near the Nueces River below San Patricio. Nine whites are killed at the scene; two men (Mr. Harris and a German settler), and one infant (Mrs. Harris’ child) are killed the following day.
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas. (Austin: L. E.Daniel, 1896), 30-31.
Carl Coke Rister, Comanche bondage: Dr. John Charles Beales's settlement of La Villa de Dolores on Las Moras Creek in southern Texas of the 1830's (Glendale Ca: A.H. Clark, 1955), 126-32.
Comanche War Party Original Title: Comanche War Party on the March, Fully Equipped
Image Type: Oil on canvas
Creator: George Catlin, 1834
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Image Viewed: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/comanche-war-party-march-fully-equipped-4014
Longitude: -97.772369000000
- Nueces
A party of 60 Comanches (part of a larger group estimated to be about 400), attack two families and several men, former members of the Beale Colony, near the Nueces River below San Patricio. Nine whites are killed at the scene; two men (Mr. Harris and a German settler), and one infant (Mrs. Harris’ child) are killed the following day.
- Comanches
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas. (Austin: L. E.Daniel, 1896), 30-31.
Carl Coke Rister, Comanche bondage: Dr. John Charles Beales's settlement of La Villa de Dolores on Las Moras Creek in southern Texas of the 1830's (Glendale Ca: A.H. Clark, 1955), 126-32.
Comanche War Party Original Title: Comanche War Party on the March, Fully Equipped
Image Type: Oil on canvas
Creator: George Catlin, 1834
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Image Viewed: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/comanche-war-party-march-fully-equipped-4014