Longitude: -97.480580000000
- Bastrop
A large party of Comanches estimated at between 100-200 attack the Coleman farm on Webber’s Prairie, 12 miles north of Bastrop. Mrs. Coleman and fifteen-year-old son Albert are killed; 5 year-old Tommy is captured. Four Comanches are killed in the raid. Several slaves are also reported killed or captured.
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 61.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 220.
New Orleans Picayune, March 12, 1839
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: -97.480580000000
- Bastrop
A large party of Comanches estimated at between 100-200 attack the Coleman farm on Webber’s Prairie, 12 miles north of Bastrop. Mrs. Coleman and fifteen-year-old son Albert are killed; 5 year-old Tommy is captured. Four Comanches are killed in the raid. Several slaves are also reported killed or captured.
- Comanches
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 61.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 220.
New Orleans Picayune, March 12, 1839
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