Longitude: -98.436719000000
Ten miles south of present-day Windthorst, a party of 18 Texas rangers led by Lieutenant A. B. Van Benthuysen intercept a mixed band of Kichais (Wichita), Toweash and Waco (Wichita) numbering between 150 and 180. Ten rangers and 40 Indians are reported killed.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002) 1:268-281.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 142-43.
Telegraph and Texas Register, December 23, 1837.
Telegraph and Texas Register, February 3, 1838.
Telegraph and Texas Register, March 17, 1838.
Toweash Indian Original Title: Tahuaiases
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Lino Sanchez y Tapia after Jean Louis Berlandier
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Image Citation:
Jean Louis Berlandier, The Indians of Texas in 1830. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1969, Plate 14
Longitude: -98.436719000000
Ten miles south of present-day Windthorst, a party of 18 Texas rangers led by Lieutenant A. B. Van Benthuysen intercept a mixed band of Kichais (Wichita), Toweash and Waco (Wichita) numbering between 150 and 180. Ten rangers and 40 Indians are reported killed.
- Wichitas
- Kichais
- Wichitas
- Wacos
- Wichitas
- Toweash
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002) 1:268-281.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 142-43.
Telegraph and Texas Register, December 23, 1837.
Telegraph and Texas Register, February 3, 1838.
Telegraph and Texas Register, March 17, 1838.
Toweash Indian Original Title: Tahuaiases
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Lino Sanchez y Tapia after Jean Louis Berlandier
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Image Citation:
Jean Louis Berlandier, The Indians of Texas in 1830. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1969, Plate 14