Longitude: -98.050693000000
En route to San Antonio to bring their pigs to market, four Anglo-Texans were attacked by Indians, possible Wichitas. The attack occurred on the La Bahia – San Antonio road, forty miles east of San Antonio. Elijah Andrew Roark, Andrew Cox and Robert Spears were killed. A fourth, Leo Roark, escaped.
William B. Dewees, Letters from an Early Settler of Texas (Louisville: Morton Griswold, 1852), 120. “Roark, Elijah Andrew,”
Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fro02), accessed June 15, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.)
Wichita Indian Original Title: Wee-tá-ra-shá-ro, Head Chief of the Tribe
Image Type: Oil on canvas
Creator: George Catlin, 1834
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Image Viewed: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/wee-ta-ra-sha-ro-head-chief-tribe-4451
Image Accessed: April 9, 2019
Longitude: -98.050693000000
En route to San Antonio to bring their pigs to market, four Anglo-Texans were attacked by Indians, possible Wichitas. The attack occurred on the La Bahia – San Antonio road, forty miles east of San Antonio. Elijah Andrew Roark, Andrew Cox and Robert Spears were killed. A fourth, Leo Roark, escaped.
- Wichitas
William B. Dewees, Letters from an Early Settler of Texas (Louisville: Morton Griswold, 1852), 120. “Roark, Elijah Andrew,”
Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fro02), accessed June 15, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.)
Wichita Indian Original Title: Wee-tá-ra-shá-ro, Head Chief of the Tribe
Image Type: Oil on canvas
Creator: George Catlin, 1834
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Image Viewed: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/wee-ta-ra-sha-ro-head-chief-tribe-4451
Image Accessed: April 9, 2019