Longitude: -96.829080000000
- Hill
A party of 23 Anglo surveyors is attacked by 300 Indians including Kickapoo, Tawakoni and Waco (Wichita), and Caddo, one mile west of present-day Dawson. At least 16 surveyors and thirty Indians are reported killed.
Jimmy L. Bryan, “More Disastrous than All: The Surveyors’ Fight: 1838,” East Texas Historical Journal, vol. 1, issue 6, 3-14.
Surveyors Original Title: Brownsville, Texas
Image Type: Steel engraving on paper
Creator: James D. Smillie after John E. Weyss
Collection: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
Image Citation:
Emory, William H., Report of the United States Mexican Boundary Survey, Made under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior, 34th Congress, 1st Session, House Exec. Doc. No. 135 (3 vols.; Washington, D.C.: Cornelius Wendell, 1857), vol. 1, part 1, opp. p. 60.
Longitude: -96.829080000000
- Hill
A party of 23 Anglo surveyors is attacked by 300 Indians including Kickapoo, Tawakoni and Waco (Wichita), and Caddo, one mile west of present-day Dawson. At least 16 surveyors and thirty Indians are reported killed.
- Caddos
- Kickapoos
- Wichitas
- Tawakonis
- Wichitas
- Wacos
Jimmy L. Bryan, “More Disastrous than All: The Surveyors’ Fight: 1838,” East Texas Historical Journal, vol. 1, issue 6, 3-14.
Surveyors Original Title: Brownsville, Texas
Image Type: Steel engraving on paper
Creator: James D. Smillie after John E. Weyss
Collection: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
Image Citation:
Emory, William H., Report of the United States Mexican Boundary Survey, Made under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior, 34th Congress, 1st Session, House Exec. Doc. No. 135 (3 vols.; Washington, D.C.: Cornelius Wendell, 1857), vol. 1, part 1, opp. p. 60.