Captain Micah Andrews’ ranger company at Fort Coleman attacks a Comanche encampment south of the Colorado River and west of Walnut Creek, in present-day Austin. One Comanche and one Texan (Philip Martin) are killed.
Date: March 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.260118000000
Longitude: -97.642800000000
Longitude: -97.642800000000
Citation:
Frank Brown, Annals of Travis County and of the City of Austin, 2:76
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Gammel Book Co., [1900]), 160-63.
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Date: March 16, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A resident of one of the San Antonio missions is reported to have been killed and his body mutilated by Comanches.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.360051000000
Longitude: -98.478559000000
Longitude: -98.478559000000
Citation:
Juan Nepomuceno Seguín, A Revolution Remembered: the Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguín. Jesús F. de la Teja, ed. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2002), 167.
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Date: March 18, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American A party of Comanches kill the nephew of Francisco Ruiz near the Ruiz ranch on the Medina River (present-day Von Ormy).
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.298677000000
Longitude: -98.651050000000
Longitude: -98.651050000000
Citation:
Juan Nepomuceno Seguín, A Revolution Remembered: the Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguín. Jesús F. de la Teja, ed. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2002), 167.
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Date: May 5, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of Comanches, part of a larger force estimated at 200, kill one man, Neal, outside Nashville, five miles northeast of present-day Gause.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.863284000000
Longitude: -96.676789000000
Longitude: -96.676789000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 246.
Event Type:
Date: May 6, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A large party of Comanches, estimated at 200, attack a team of wagons near present-day Cameron. Five Texans are killed: Jesse Bailey, David McCandless, Aaron Cullins, Clairborne Neal and John Hughes.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.834654000000
Longitude: -96.909479000000
Longitude: -96.909479000000
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), 246-47
Telegraph and Texas Register, May 23, 1836
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Date: May 8, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanches raid the home of Mr. Robinett, near Nashville, five miles northeast of present-day Gause, driving off a herd of horses. One man is reported wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.837446000000
Longitude: -96.692298000000
Longitude: -96.692298000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 248.
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Date: May 9, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanches raid the home of Mr. Webb near Nashville. No casualties are reported.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.825833000000
Longitude: -96.652778000000
Longitude: -96.652778000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 248.
Date: Early November 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Towards the end of a two-month campaign into North Texas to retrieve horses stolen from settlements along the Colorado River, William Eastland and 24 Texans encounter a party of 200 Comanches at Red Bayou, four miles northwest of present-day New Boston.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.489270000000
Longitude: -94.469053000000
Longitude: -94.469053000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:33.
Event Type:
Date: November 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White McCullom, a blacksmith, and the son of James Rogers are attacked by Indians, probably Comanches, while cutting trees near Wilbarger Creek, five miles southwest of present-day Elgin. McCullom is killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.298357000000
Longitude: -97.450411000000
Longitude: -97.450411000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 238.
Event Type:
Date: 1838 n.d.
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Lawler, Howard and several other citizens of Refugio are killed by Comanches.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.314205000000
Longitude: -97.270216000000
Longitude: -97.270216000000
Citation:
Hobart Huson, Refugio: A Comprehensive History of Refugio County from Aboriginal Times to 1953 (Woodsboro, TX: The Rooke Foundation, Inc., 1953), 434.
Event Type:
Date: January 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Indians, probably Comanches, in the process of stealing horses, kill John Eagleston on the streets of Bastrop.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.112855000000
Longitude: -97.310966000000
Longitude: -97.310966000000
Citation:
Wilbarger, John Wesley. Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co.,1935), 88.
Event Type:
Date: Early 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Two settlers (Hart and Weaver) are killed by Indians, probably Comanches, in a nighttime raid of Bastrop.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.099751000000
Longitude: -97.293741000000
Longitude: -97.293741000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas. (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 107.
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: March 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Shawnees, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A party of Shawnees kill four Comanches at the headwaters of the Guadalupe River, near present-day Kerrville.
Tribe: Shawnees, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.067480000000
Longitude: -99.209144000000
Longitude: -99.209144000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, March 24, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: April 7, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A skirmish between Lipan Apaches and Comanches along the Nueces results in eight Lipans killed
Tribe: Comanches, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.327280000000
Longitude: -98.470639000000
Longitude: -98.470639000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, April 7, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: June 10, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Tonkawas, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Tonkawas fight and defeat a party of Comanches on the Nueces River; exact location unknown.
Tribe: Tonkawas, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.203719000000
Longitude: -98.694379000000
Longitude: -98.694379000000
Citation:
Rena Maverick Green, Samuel Maverick, Texan: 1803-1870; A Collection of Letters, Journals, and Memoirs (San Antonio: 1952), 72.
Event Type:
Date: June 27, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A group of fourteen traders and surveyors led by Capt. Love is attacked by Comanches on the Rio Frio, 75 miles west of San Antonio. The entire party is killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.642934000000
Longitude: -99.741259000000
Longitude: -99.741259000000
Citation:
George W. Bonnell, Topographical Description of Texas. To which is added an Account of the Indian Tribes (Austin: Clark, Wing, & Brown, 1840), 133.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:230.
Rena Maverick Green, Samuel Maverick, Texan: 1803-1870; A Collection of Letters, Journals, and Memoirs (San Antonio: 1952), 73.
Telegraph and Texas Register, July 7, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: June 29, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American A party of 38 Comanches appear on the outskirts of San Antonio, where they kill two Mexicans and capture a Mexican boy.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.274867000000
Longitude: -98.631309000000
Longitude: -98.631309000000
Citation:
Rena Maverick Green, Samuel Maverick, Texan: 1803-1870; A Collection of Letters, Journals, and Memoirs (San Antonio: 1952), 97.
Event Type:
Date: June 30, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American, White Two male residents of San Antonio, a German and a Mexican, are killed by Comanches four miles outside town.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.713815000000
Longitude: -98.749997000000
Longitude: -98.749997000000
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, ed. Matt Bradley (Tioga: The Herald Company, 1912), 267.
Rena Maverick Green, Samuel Maverick, Texan: 1803-1870; A Collection of Letters, Journals, and Memoirs (San Antonio: 1952), 97.
Event Type:
Date: July 1, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Volunteers from San Antonio fight Comanches believed to be responsible for the recent depredations against inhabitants of the area. Two Comanches are killed, their horses and provisions seized.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.479445000000
Longitude: -98.793795000000
Longitude: -98.793795000000
Citation:
Rena Maverick Green, Samuel Maverick, Texan: 1803-1870; A Collection of Letters, Journals, and Memoirs (San Antonio: 1952), 97.
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