A force of 124 Wichita and 40 Caddo attack Rezin P. Bowie and a party of nine Anglo-American treasure hunters near an abandoned Spanish silver mine, six miles east of present-day Menard, on the San Saba River. Six whites are wounded and one killed.
Date: 1831
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Caddos, Wichitas
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tribe: Caddos, Wichitas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.920119000000
Longitude: -99.779287000000
Longitude: -99.779287000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 19-23.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 91-98.
Date: August 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wichitas, Caddos, Delawares
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A band of eight Wacos (Wichita) is pursued and caught by a party of Caddos and Delawares on the Little River. Five Wacos are killed.
Tribe: Wichitas, Caddos, Delawares
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.953387000000
Longitude: -97.377588000000
Longitude: -97.377588000000
Citation:
Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1924), 2:836, 848-49.
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 25.
Event Type:
Date: 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Three Anglo colonists are followed and attacked by Indians, possibly Caddos, between the Trinity and Sabine rivers. One Anglo is killed.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.014842000000
Longitude: -94.940633000000
Longitude: -94.940633000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 61-62.
Event Type:
Date: June 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Caddos, Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A force of 60 Texas volunteers captures four Indians--two Caddos, chief Canoma and his son, and two Cherokees--near the Three Forks of the Little River, six miles southeast of Belton. Mistakenly believing them to be horse thieves, they vote to execute the four men.
Tribe: Caddos, Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.970328000000
Longitude: -97.348480000000
Longitude: -97.348480000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 25.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:31.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 207-08.
Event Type:
Date: November 1, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos, Caddos, Kickapoos
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of fifteen Wacos (Wichitas) or Caddos raid the farm of Joseph Taylor near Three Forks of the Little River, three miles southeast of present-day Belton, burning the cabin and killing livestock. Two Indians are killed. (Note: De Shields attributes the attack to Kickapoos).
Tribe: Wacos, Caddos, Kickapoos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.973254000000
Longitude: -97.402073000000
Longitude: -97.402073000000
Citation:
James T. De Shields, Border Wars of Texas: being an Authentic and Popular Account, in Chronological Order, of the Long and Bitter Conflict Waged between Savage Indian Tribes and the Pioneer Settlers of Texas, Matt Bradley, ed. (Tioga: The Herald Company, 1912), 132-39.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:42-4.
Telegraph and Texas Register, November 21, 1835.
Event Type:
Date: January 1, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of 40 Caddo and Comanches attacks two wagons of colonists near the mouth of Brushy Creek, on the San Gabriel River. Thomas Riley is killed; his brother James Riley is severely wounded. Four Indians are reported killed.
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.722847000000
Longitude: -97.046335000000
Longitude: -97.046335000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 13:38-40.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:71-2.
“More Indian Difficulties,” Telegraph and Texas Register, January 23, 1836.
Event Type:
Date: May 19, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A force of several hundred Comanche and Caddo attack Fort Parker, five miles north of present-day Groesbeck. Five settlers killed; five captured, including Cynthia Ann Parker, Rachael Plummer.
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 31.563820000000
Longitude: -96.547920000000
Longitude: -96.547920000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837, vol. 1. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002).
Art Leatherwood, "Fort Parker," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/uef13), accessed October 28, 2015. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical
Association.
Rachael Plummer, Narrative of the captivity and extreme sufferings of Mrs. Clarissa Plummer: wife of the late Mr. James Plummer, of Franklin County (New York: Perry and Cooke, Publishers, 1838)
Event Type:
Date: July 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Capt. William Hill’s company of 50 rangers pursue a party of 20 Caddos from the headwaters of Brushy Creek in present-day Leander to Cannonsnap Creek, seven miles west of present-day Cameron. Three Indians are reported killed.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.956707000000
Longitude: -97.482026000000
Longitude: -97.482026000000
Citation:
John Holmes Jenkins III, Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958), 47.
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 11:490.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 192-94.
Event Type:
Date: July 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wichitas, Caddos, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Caddo and Wichita Indians reportedly kill nine Anglos near a Delaware village on the Sulphur River, twenty miles north of present-day Leonard. Comanches are also believed to be involved in the attack.
Tribe: Wichitas, Caddos, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 33.441221000000
Longitude: -96.058956000000
Longitude: -96.058956000000
Citation:
H. Allen Anderson, “The Delaware and Shawnee Indians and the Republic of Texas, 1820-1845,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 94, no. 2 (Oct 1990): 240-241.
Event Type:
Date: September 21, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) While searching for a runaway slave along the Guadalupe River below Gonzales, three Anglos are attacked by a party of 40 Caddos. Collin Beason and Maxwell Steel are killed. A third, Leander Beason, escapes.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.498756000000
Longitude: -97.460996000000
Longitude: -97.460996000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1: 194.
Telegraph and Texas Register, October 4, 1836.
Event Type:
Date: January 28, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos, Kickapoos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Looking for stray horses, four men--Columbus Andrews, David Faulkenberry, his son Evan Faulkenberry, and Abram Anglin--are attacked by Indians (possibly Caddos and Kickapoos) on the west bank of the Trinity River, one mile west of present-day Palestine. Three are killed; the fourth, Abram...
Tribe: Caddos, Kickapoos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.743586000000
Longitude: -95.865572000000
Longitude: -95.865572000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas. (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 55-56.
George P. Garrison, ed., Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1907: Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas (Washington, Government Printing office, 1908), 2/1:195.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 347-48
Event Type:
Date: May 11, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A company of rangers is attacked by Caddos near the Falls of the Brazos, near present-day Bucksnort. One Texas, James Coryell, is killed.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.252160000000
Longitude: -96.919180000000
Longitude: -96.919180000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:32.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 250-52.
Event Type:
Date: Early June 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of Caddos kill a woman and a boy, fifteen miles from Washington.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 30.342535000000
Longitude: -96.331543000000
Longitude: -96.331543000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, June 13, 1837.
Event Type:
Date: October 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos, Wichitas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American One Texan (Lyons) is killed, and horses stolen near the headwaters of the Navidad River, 12 miles south of LaGrange. Caddos and Wichitas are suspected.
Tribe: Caddos, Wichitas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.619647000000
Longitude: -96.892436000000
Longitude: -96.892436000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, October 28, 1837
Event Type:
Date: October 14, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos, Caddos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of 30 Indians chase three men for three miles along the Colorado River near Fort Mina (at Alum Creek, four miles southeast of Bastrop). One man, Joseph Rogers, is killed. Caddos and Wacos (Wichitas) are suspected.
Tribe: Wacos, Caddos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.056652000000
Longitude: -97.219081000000
Longitude: -97.219081000000
Citation:
J. D. Morris, “Indian Depredations,” Telegraph and Texas Register, November 18, 1837.
Date: Mid-October 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos, Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Residents of Bastrop pursue Indians believed to be Caddos and Wacos (Wichitas) suspected in recent theft of herds of horses and cattle. Two or three Indians are killed.
Tribe: Caddos, Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.078587000000
Longitude: -97.296836000000
Longitude: -97.296836000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, October 28, 1837.
Event Type:
Date: Winter 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Four members of the Crooker family are killed by Caddos near Fort Inglish (present day Bonham). An infant survives.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 33.578659000000
Longitude: -96.183914000000
Longitude: -96.183914000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 15:488-89.
Event Type:
Date: Winter 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of Anglo Texans kill four Caddos suspected in the murder of the Crooker family, near Fort Inglish (present-day Bonham).
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 33.582394000000
Longitude: -96.195556000000
Longitude: -96.195556000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 15:488-89.
Event Type:
Date: Spring 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American James Pearson, his wife, daughter, and one son are killed by Caddos ten miles south of present-day Marshall. An eight-year-old son, Thomas Pearson, survives. Two years later he is found living among the Comanches and returned to his family.
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 32.444553000000
Longitude: -94.333986000000
Longitude: -94.333986000000
Citation:
Frederich Benjamin Page, Prairiedom: Rambles and Scrambles in Texas or New Estrémadura (New York: Paine & Burgess, 1845), 50.
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers, 1825-1843 (Austin: Texas State Library, 1959), 1:114.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-April 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Robert Potter and a party of Anglos attack a Caddo village near Caddo Lake, believing Indians had stolen Potter’s horses (which later proved to be false). Three Indians and two whites are killed in the encounter.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.672775000000
Longitude: -94.002101000000
Longitude: -94.002101000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, May 23, 1838.
Event Type: