Longitude: -99.999832000000
- Stonewall
Lieutenant A. B. Van Benthuysen and 18 Texas Rangers encounter a party of Cherokees led by several Kichai (Wichita) scouts en route to trade with the Comanches near the forks of the Brazos River (the confluence of Salt Fork and Double Mountain Fork), 50 miles west of present-day Throckmorton. A Kichai scout is killed. (Noah Smithwick says Delaware.)
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:267-68.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 143.
Cherokee Indians Original Title: Cheraquís. Cherokees’: Indigenes des E.U. du N. Amerique emigrés aux environs de Nacogdoches.
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Lino Sánchez y Tapia after José María Sánchez y Tapia
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 9
Longitude: -99.999832000000
- Stonewall
Lieutenant A. B. Van Benthuysen and 18 Texas Rangers encounter a party of Cherokees led by several Kichai (Wichita) scouts en route to trade with the Comanches near the forks of the Brazos River (the confluence of Salt Fork and Double Mountain Fork), 50 miles west of present-day Throckmorton. A Kichai scout is killed. (Noah Smithwick says Delaware.)
- Wichitas
- Kichais
- Cherokees
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:267-68.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 143.
Cherokee Indians Original Title: Cheraquís. Cherokees’: Indigenes des E.U. du N. Amerique emigrés aux environs de Nacogdoches.
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Lino Sánchez y Tapia after José María Sánchez y Tapia
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 9