Settlers Skirmish with Wichitas on Keechi Creek | Texas in Turmoil: Mapping Interethnic Violence, 1821-79

GeoCoords:

Latitude: 32.946347000000
Longitude: -98.219635000000

County:

Palo Pinto

Date:

February 1861

Time Period:

Texas Statehood 1846-

Description:

A group of settlers tracks a raiding party of Wacos (Wichitas), believed to have been responsible for the murder of William Youngblood a few days earlier, to the East Fork of Keechi Creek, eleven miles north of present-day Mineral Wells. They attack and kill at least four.

Event Type:

Reprisal

Race or Ethnicity:

Native American

White

Tribe:

Age:

adult (18+)

Citation:

Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 76-77.

J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 521-522.

Image
Image details

Waco Indians

Caption: Waco Indians
Original Title: Hueco Indians
Image Type: Print from lithograph based on original sketch
Creator: H.B. Möllhausen
Collection: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
Image Citation:

Henry, Joseph, and Baird, Spencer Fullerton. Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Washington: Print, 1856, p. 27