GeoCoords:
Latitude: 26.812375000000
Longitude: -98.304315000000
Longitude: -98.304315000000
County:
- Brooks
Date:
September 1838
Time Period:
Description:
A party of Mexican traders en route to Corpus Christi from the Rio Grande is attacked by a group of Americans and Tonkawas. Nine merchants are killed.
Event Type:
Tribe:
Citation:
Joseph Milton Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 57.
Telegraph and Texas Register, September 29, 1838.
Tonkawa Chief Placido Original Title: Placido, chief of the Tonkawas.
Image Type: Still image of wood engraving
Creator: Robert Telfer
Collection: New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Image Viewed: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-1c14-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Image Accessed: May 29, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 26.812375000000
Longitude: -98.304315000000
Longitude: -98.304315000000
County:
- Brooks
Date:
September 1838
Event Description:
A party of Mexican traders en route to Corpus Christi from the Rio Grande is attacked by a group of Americans and Tonkawas. Nine merchants are killed.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Tonkawas
Citation:
Joseph Milton Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 57.
Telegraph and Texas Register, September 29, 1838.
Tonkawa Chief Placido Original Title: Placido, chief of the Tonkawas.
Image Type: Still image of wood engraving
Creator: Robert Telfer
Collection: New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Image Viewed: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-1c14-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Image Accessed: May 29, 2019