GeoCoords:
Latitude: 29.958705000000
Longitude: -98.716905000000
Longitude: -98.716905000000
County:
- Kendall
Date:
June 8-9, 1844
Time Period:
Description:
A company of fifteen rangers led by Capt. Jack Hays engages a large party of Comanches in a running battle along the Guadalupe River. One Texan, German immigrant Peter Fohr, and approximately 20 Indians are killed.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Eugene Hollon and Ruth Lapham Butler, eds. William Bollaert’s Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956), 377-78.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 75-77.
Clarksville Northern Standard, July 20, 1844.
Lorna Geer Sheppard, ed., An Editor’s View of Early Texas (Austin: Eakin Press, 1998), 62.
Jack Coffee Hays Original Title: John Coffee Hays
Image Type: Photograph
Creator: Mathew B. Brady, 1857
Collection: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
Image Viewed: https://www.loc.gov/item/2002712549/
Image Accessed: May 21, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 29.958705000000
Longitude: -98.716905000000
Longitude: -98.716905000000
County:
- Kendall
Date:
June 8-9, 1844
Event Description:
A company of fifteen rangers led by Capt. Jack Hays engages a large party of Comanches in a running battle along the Guadalupe River. One Texan, German immigrant Peter Fohr, and approximately 20 Indians are killed.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Eugene Hollon and Ruth Lapham Butler, eds. William Bollaert’s Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956), 377-78.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 75-77.
Clarksville Northern Standard, July 20, 1844.
Lorna Geer Sheppard, ed., An Editor’s View of Early Texas (Austin: Eakin Press, 1998), 62.
Jack Coffee Hays Original Title: John Coffee Hays
Image Type: Photograph
Creator: Mathew B. Brady, 1857
Collection: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
Image Viewed: https://www.loc.gov/item/2002712549/
Image Accessed: May 21, 2019