GeoCoords:
Latitude: 30.727972000000
Longitude: -99.502382000000
Longitude: -99.502382000000
County:
- Menard
Date:
April 2, 1862
Time Period:
Description:
Comanches kill three members of the Parks family and burn their house near Little Saline Creek, in the southeast corner of Menard County.
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), 101
Comanche Man Original Title: Comanche Brave
Image Type: Photograph
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection. 1850 - 1900
Image Viewed: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/43363844
Image Accessed: April 3, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 30.727972000000
Longitude: -99.502382000000
Longitude: -99.502382000000
County:
- Menard
Date:
April 2, 1862
Event Description:
Comanches kill three members of the Parks family and burn their house near Little Saline Creek, in the southeast corner of Menard County.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 101
Comanche Man Original Title: Comanche Brave
Image Type: Photograph
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection. 1850 - 1900
Image Viewed: https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/43363844
Image Accessed: April 3, 2019