Longitude: -97.906452000000
- Travis
Ranger companies led by John J. Robinson and Thomas Robbins are attacked by Indians (probably Comanches) on Sandy Creek, near present-day Leander. Eight Texans are killed; eight wounded.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:157.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 226-27.
Comanches on Horses Original Title: Comanche Feats of Horsemanship
Image Type: Oil on canvas
Creator: George Catlin, 1834-1835
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Image Viewed: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/comanche-feats-horsemanship-4004
Image Accessed: April 9, 2019
Longitude: -97.906452000000
- Travis
Ranger companies led by John J. Robinson and Thomas Robbins are attacked by Indians (probably Comanches) on Sandy Creek, near present-day Leander. Eight Texans are killed; eight wounded.
- Comanches
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:157.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 226-27.
Comanches on Horses Original Title: Comanche Feats of Horsemanship
Image Type: Oil on canvas
Creator: George Catlin, 1834-1835
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Image Viewed: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/comanche-feats-horsemanship-4004
Image Accessed: April 9, 2019