GeoCoords:
Latitude: 33.392788000000
Longitude: -98.162705000000
Longitude: -98.162705000000
County:
- Jack
Date:
February 1861
Time Period:
Description:
Capt. D. M. Tackett and a party of rangers encounter eleven unidentified Indians twelve miles north of Jacksboro. A brief skirmish ensues in which one Indian is killed and another is seriously wounded.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 75.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 521.
Texas Rangers Image Viewed: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Texrangers.jpg
Image Accessed: January 23, 2023
Image Citation:
A group of Texas Rangers (anonymous drawing, c. 1845). The Culver Pictures Collection.
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 33.392788000000
Longitude: -98.162705000000
Longitude: -98.162705000000
County:
- Jack
Date:
February 1861
Event Description:
Capt. D. M. Tackett and a party of rangers encounter eleven unidentified Indians twelve miles north of Jacksboro. A brief skirmish ensues in which one Indian is killed and another is seriously wounded.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Unknown Tribe
Gender:
male
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 75.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 521.
Texas Rangers Image Viewed: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Texrangers.jpg
Image Accessed: January 23, 2023
Image Citation:
A group of Texas Rangers (anonymous drawing, c. 1845). The Culver Pictures Collection.