Two hundred U.S. troops led by Maj. William R. Price encounter four hundred Kiowas and Comanches between Sweetwater Creek and the Dry Fork of the Washita River. A brief skirmish ensues in which two Indians are killed and six others are wounded.
Date: September 12, 1874
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Kiowas, Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tribe: Kiowas, Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 35.707981000000
Longitude: -100.157615000000
Longitude: -100.157615000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 284-285.
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Date: September 28, 1874
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Kiowas, Comanches, Cheyennes
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White In the decisive battle of the Red River War, thirteen companies of U.S. troops led by Col. Ranald Mackenzie attack a camp of Kiowas, Comanches, and Cheyennes at Palo Duro Canyon. The soldiers kill four Indians, sustaining one casualty and several wounded of their own.
Tribe: Kiowas, Comanches, Cheyennes
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 34.933988000000
Longitude: -101.646304000000
Longitude: -101.646304000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 285-286.
Handbook of Texas Online, Thomas F. Schilz, "PALO DURO CANYON, BATTLE OF," accessed August 20, 2018,http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/btp03.
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Date: November 3, 1874
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White U.S. soldiers led by Col. Ranald Mackenzie attack a Comanche camp at Lagunas Quatras, just south of Tahoka. They kill two warriors and capture nineteen women and children.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 33.117946000000
Longitude: -101.783709000000
Longitude: -101.783709000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 287.
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Date: November 18, 1874
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A sixteen-man detachment of Texas Rangers led by Lt. B. F. Best attack a small group of Comanches near Brownwood. They kill three Comanches and wound another. The Indians wound two rangers in the fighting.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.709126000000
Longitude: -98.991721000000
Longitude: -98.991721000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 288.
Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, 2nd edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 316.
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Date: November 20, 1874
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Comanches attack a party of Texas Rangers, including Scott Cooley and William Trayweek, at Elm Creek in Menard County. Five Indians die in the fighting.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.876820000000
Longitude: -99.650142000000
Longitude: -99.650142000000
Citation:
Daily Statesman (Austin), November 28, 1874.
Michael L. Nunnally, American Indian Wars: A Chronology of Confrontations Between Native Peoples and Settlers and the United States Military, 1500s-1901 (Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2007), 137.
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Date: November 21, 1874
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Lt. Daniel W. Roberts and twelve rangers fight eleven Comanches about fifteen miles south of Menard. The rangers kill nine Comanches, taking one prisoner. One ranger is seriously wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.700390000000
Longitude: -99.786357000000
Longitude: -99.786357000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 288.
Gregory F. Michno and Susan J. Michno, Forgotten Fights: Little-Known Raids and Skirmishes on the Frontier, 1823 to 1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2008), 295-296.
Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, 2nd edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 316.
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Date: February 10, 1875
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Anglo settlers form a posse to track Comanches committing depredations in Uvalde County. They find the Indians near Beaver Lake and attack them. The posse wounds one Comanche before the Indians retreat. No settlers are killed in the brief skirmish.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.179132000000
Longitude: -101.071034000000
Longitude: -101.071034000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno and Susan J. Michno, Forgotten Fights: Little-Known Raids and Skirmishes on the Frontier, 1823 to 1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2008), 297-298.
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Date: April 25, 1875
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, Native American, White U.S. soldiers and three black Seminole scouts led by Lt. John L. Bullis attack roughly 30 Comanches at Eagle Nest Creek. They kill three Comanches and wound one other.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.809357000000
Longitude: -101.549563000000
Longitude: -101.549563000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 291.
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Date: May 8, 1875
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White About twenty Texas Rangers in Maj. John B. Jones Frontier Battalion attack seven Comanches after spotting them from Spy Knob peak. The rangers kill five Comanches in a running fight.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 33.395052000000
Longitude: -98.486420000000
Longitude: -98.486420000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 291.
Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, 2nd edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 317.
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Date: November 2, 1875
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, Native American, White Lt. Andrew Geddes leads U.S. soldiers and Black Seminole Scouts in an attack on Comanches at the mouth of the Pecos River near Langtry. They kill one warrior and capture four women and a boy, sustaining no casualties.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 29.714593000000
Longitude: -101.370188000000
Longitude: -101.370188000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 293.
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Date: March 18, 1877
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of 45 buffalo hunters attacks a 300-strong Comanche camp. The Comanches repel the attackers, wounding five of them, one of them mortally. An unknown number of Comanches are wounded in the assault.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 33.453121000000
Longitude: -101.536559000000
Longitude: -101.536559000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 304-305.
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Date: May 4, 1877
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, Native American, White Capt. Phillip L. Lee and 42 African-American soldiers attack a group of Comanches near present-day Morton. They kill at least four Comanche men and several women and children. Sgt. Charles Butler sustains a mortal wound in the fighting.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 33.725043000000
Longitude: -102.759270000000
Longitude: -102.759270000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 305.
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Date: December 27, 1877
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Comanches attack Isaac N. Kountz and his brother Sebastian two miles southwest of Junction. Sixteen-year-old Isaac is killed; Sebastian, aged eleven, manages to escape.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.472553000000
Longitude: -99.799660000000
Longitude: -99.799660000000
Citation:
Joseph Carroll McConnell, The West Texas Frontier: Or, A Descriptive History of Early Times in Western Texas, Volume 2 (Jacksboro: Gazette Print, 1933), 810.
Event Type:
Date: n.d. 1878
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American In one of the last Indian raids in Kerr County, Comanches kill four of James Dowdy’s children while they are minding the family’s sheep near their home on Johnson Creek, eight miles northwest of Kerrville.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.096493000000
Longitude: -99.264992000000
Longitude: -99.264992000000
Citation:
Andrew Jackson Sowell, Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas (Austin: Ben C. Jones & Co., 1900), 740-741.
Michael L. Nunnally, American Indian Wars: A Chronology of Confrontations Between Native Peoples and Settlers and the United States Military, 1500s-1901 (Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2007), 146.
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Date: June 29, 1878
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Capt. Junius Peake and seven rangers attack 25 Comanches near the headwaters of the North Concho River, south of Big Spring. Six Comanches are killed. One ranger is killed in the fighting and three others are wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.046308000000
Longitude: -101.303035000000
Longitude: -101.303035000000
Citation:
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 318.
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