GeoCoords:
Latitude: 30.149442000000
Longitude: -96.790237000000
Longitude: -96.790237000000
County:
- Fayette
Date:
Summer 1836
Time Period:
Description:
John Edwards is killed on the road from Bastrop to Washington by a party of 10-15 Comanches.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Citation:
John Holmes Jenkins III, Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958), 33.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:156.
Comanche Indian Original Title: Comanche Warrior. Written on the border: “Shoshonean Tribe.” Northwestern Texas
Image Type: Wood engraving
Collection: Art and Picture Collection, The New York Public Library
Image Viewed: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-1b53-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Image Accessed: April 2, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 30.149442000000
Longitude: -96.790237000000
Longitude: -96.790237000000
County:
- Fayette
Date:
Summer 1836
Event Description:
John Edwards is killed on the road from Bastrop to Washington by a party of 10-15 Comanches.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
Gender:
male
Citation:
John Holmes Jenkins III, Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958), 33.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:156.
Comanche Indian Original Title: Comanche Warrior. Written on the border: “Shoshonean Tribe.” Northwestern Texas
Image Type: Wood engraving
Collection: Art and Picture Collection, The New York Public Library
Image Viewed: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-1b53-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Image Accessed: April 2, 2019