Longitude: -97.358331000000
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Thirty-five Rangers under Capt. John Bird engage a combined force of more than 20 Caddos, Kickapoos and Comanches at Bird’s Creek in present-day Temple. Approximately 40 Comanches are reported killed in the engagement. Five rangers are killed.
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 70-73.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:99-101.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:218-225.
Telegraph and Texas Register, June 5, 1839.
Kickapoo Indian Original Title: Ah-tón-we-tuck, Cock Turkey, Repeating His Prayer
Image Type: Oil on canvas
Creator: George Catlin, 1830
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Image Viewed: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/ah-ton-we-tuck-cock-turkey-repeating-his-prayer-4001
Image Accessed: May 8, 2019
Longitude: -97.358331000000
- Bell
Thirty-five Rangers under Capt. John Bird engage a combined force of more than 20 Caddos, Kickapoos and Comanches at Bird’s Creek in present-day Temple. Approximately 40 Comanches are reported killed in the engagement. Five rangers are killed.
- Caddos
- Comanches
- Kickapoos
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 70-73.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:99-101.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:218-225.
Telegraph and Texas Register, June 5, 1839.
Kickapoo Indian Original Title: Ah-tón-we-tuck, Cock Turkey, Repeating His Prayer
Image Type: Oil on canvas
Creator: George Catlin, 1830
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Image Viewed: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/ah-ton-we-tuck-cock-turkey-repeating-his-prayer-4001
Image Accessed: May 8, 2019