Longitude: -98.541445000000
- Bexar
A volunteer party from San Antonio under Capt. Benjamin Franklin Cage on its way to Leon Creek in response to the attack on a surveying party earlier that day is attacked by Comanches three miles north of San Antonio. Eight Texans are killed.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:83-8.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 81.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:230.
Comanche War Party Original Title: Comanche War Party, Mounted on Wild Horses
Image Type: Oil on canvas
Creator: George Catlin, 1834-1837
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Image Viewed: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/comanche-war-party-mounted-wild-horses-4013
Image Accessed: April 2, 2019
Longitude: -98.541445000000
- Bexar
A volunteer party from San Antonio under Capt. Benjamin Franklin Cage on its way to Leon Creek in response to the attack on a surveying party earlier that day is attacked by Comanches three miles north of San Antonio. Eight Texans are killed.
- Comanches
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:83-8.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 81.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:230.
Comanche War Party Original Title: Comanche War Party, Mounted on Wild Horses
Image Type: Oil on canvas
Creator: George Catlin, 1834-1837
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Image Viewed: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/comanche-war-party-mounted-wild-horses-4013
Image Accessed: April 2, 2019