GeoCoords:
Latitude: 30.987355000000
Longitude: -97.402793000000
Longitude: -97.402793000000
County:
- Bell
Date:
January 2, 1840
Time Period:
Description:
Two deserters of Edward Burleson’s Frontier Regiment are found killed, probably by Comanche Indians, near the fork of the Leon and Little rivers.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Clifford Caldwell and Ron DeLord, Texas Lawmen, 1825-1899 (Charleston: History Press, 2011), 271
Comanche Indians Original Title: Comanches
Image Type: Wood engraving
Creator: After Balduin Möllhausen
Collection: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
Image Citation:
Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (12 vols.; Washington, D.C.: A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer, 1855-1861), vol. III (1856), part II, p. 28, plate 18.
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 30.987355000000
Longitude: -97.402793000000
Longitude: -97.402793000000
County:
- Bell
Date:
January 2, 1840
Event Description:
Two deserters of Edward Burleson’s Frontier Regiment are found killed, probably by Comanche Indians, near the fork of the Leon and Little rivers.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Clifford Caldwell and Ron DeLord, Texas Lawmen, 1825-1899 (Charleston: History Press, 2011), 271
Comanche Indians Original Title: Comanches
Image Type: Wood engraving
Creator: After Balduin Möllhausen
Collection: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
Image Citation:
Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (12 vols.; Washington, D.C.: A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer, 1855-1861), vol. III (1856), part II, p. 28, plate 18.