In an effort to recover a large number of horses stolen in Gonzales, Capt. Ben McCulloch and 16 men pursue a Comanche raiding party to Johnson Fork on the Llano River, four miles east of present-day Junction. Five Comanches are killed.
Date: Early May 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.500000000000
Longitude: -99.683333000000
Longitude: -99.683333000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 84.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:221-223.
Event Type:
Date: May 20 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Texas rangers under the command of Capt. Mark Lewis encounter a band of Comanches between the San Saba and Llano rivers. Three Comanches are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.833333000000
Longitude: -100.116667000000
Longitude: -100.116667000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:226-231.
Event Type:
Date: May 21, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Texas rangers under the command of Capt. Mark Lewis encounter two parties of Comanches between the San Saba and the Llano rivers. Several Indians are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.919388000000
Longitude: -99.030627000000
Longitude: -99.030627000000
Citation:
“Memoir of Capt. C. R. Perry,” http://www.sonsofdewittcolony.org/perrycrmem.htm, accessed July 20, 2018.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:231.
Event Type:
Date: June 29, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A ranger company led by Jack Hays tracks a small party of Comanches to a camp near Uvalde Canyon, surrounding them in a thicket. Eight Comanches are killed, two are taken prisoner.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.591415000000
Longitude: -99.739267000000
Longitude: -99.739267000000
Citation:
Charles A. Gulick, ed. The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (Austin: A.C. Baldwin, 1921), 4/1:234.
Telegraph and Texas Register, July 14, 1841.
Event Type:
Date: September 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Separated from his company, Capt. Jack Hays manages to successfully hold off a large number of Comanches from atop Enchanted Rock, in Llano County, until he is rescued by his men. Several Indians are believed to have been killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.507547000000
Longitude: -98.818735000000
Longitude: -98.818735000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:342-346.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 74-5.
Event Type:
Date: January 1,1842
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, White A party of seven Comanches is pursued and overtaken by eight Mexicans near the mouth of the Medina River. Three Indians and one Mexican are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.725114000000
Longitude: -99.076152000000
Longitude: -99.076152000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, March 2, 1842
Event Type:
Date: March 1842
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Johnson and Mary Gilleland are killed by Comanches at their home near Carlos Rancho, twelve miles south of Goliad. Their two children, Rebecca and William, are captured, but recovered by Texas rangers under Albert Sidney Johnston the following day.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 28.509637000000
Longitude: -97.398419000000
Longitude: -97.398419000000
Citation:
Eugene Hollon and Ruth Lapham Butler, eds. William Bollaert’s Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956), 50.
“Capture and Rescue of Mrs. Rebecca J. Fisher, Nee Gilleland,” Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, January 1900, 209-13.
Event Type:
Date: April 1942
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A large Comanche raiding party estimated at three hundred attacks towns along the Rio Grande, including Laredo, capturing several women and children.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 26.478470000000
Longitude: -99.090288000000
Longitude: -99.090288000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, May 4, 1842.
Event Type:
Date: May 1842
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A company of rangers led by Jack Hays encounters a large party of Comanches led by Yellow Wolf near the Guadalupe River, near present-day Waring. Several Comanches are killed; five Texans are wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.955380000000
Longitude: -98.802743000000
Longitude: -98.802743000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1842-1845 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 4:35-39.
Event Type:
Date: July 1842
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Addison Gillespie and another man are killed by Indians, presumably Comanches, on Peach Creek, a few miles west of Austin
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.274260000000
Longitude: -98.041842000000
Longitude: -98.041842000000
Citation:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/harris/obits/houobi42.txt, accessed June 28, 2018
Event Type:
Date: July 9, 1842
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Comanches posing as Tonkawas kill Judge Brewster H. Jayne and an Irish laborer at Jayne’s home two miles north of Austin. Jayne’s fourteen-year-old son is captured; his three-year old son, Amos, is wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.299350000000
Longitude: -97.734474000000
Longitude: -97.734474000000
Citation:
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 141-42.
“Judge Brewster Helme Jayne,” Findagrave.com, accessed June 10, 2018.
Telegraph and Texas Register, July 20, 1842.
Event Type:
Date: November 1842
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White An Austin resident is killed by Indians, presumably Comanches, two miles north of Austin.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.316947000000
Longitude: -97.731482000000
Longitude: -97.731482000000
Citation:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/harris/obits/houobi42.txt, accessed June 28, 2018
Event Type:
Date: January 2, 1843
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 25-30 Comanches attack a carriage occupied by two men, William Bell and Alexander Coleman in Austin. Bell is killed; Coleman is wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.226969000000
Longitude: -97.694990000000
Longitude: -97.694990000000
Citation:
Clarksville Northern Standard, March 2, 1843.
Charles A. Gulick, ed. The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (Austin: A.C. Baldwin, 1921), 4/1:236-37.
Lorna Geer Sheppard, ed., An Editor’s View of Early Texas (Austin: Eakin Press, 1998), 60-61
Event Type:
Date: January 2, 1843
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, Native American, White A party of Comanches attacks the Austin farm of Nolan Luckett, killing Luckett’s son and a slave boy. Another slave is captured.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.226969000000
Longitude: -97.694990000000
Longitude: -97.694990000000
Citation:
Clarksville Northern Standard, March 2, 1843.
Charles A. Gulick, ed. The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (Austin: A.C. Baldwin, 1921), 4/1:236-37.
Lorna Geer Sheppard, ed., An Editor’s View of Early Texas (Austin: Eakin Press, 1998), 60-61.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 142-143.
Event Type:
Date: June 1, 1843
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A raiding party of several hundred Comanches appears on Aransas Bay before heading south to the Mexican settlements along the Rio Grande. One Anglo is killed, several others captured.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.907715000000
Longitude: -97.205989000000
Longitude: -97.205989000000
Citation:
Eugene Hollon and Ruth Lapham Butler, eds. William Bollaert’s Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956), 174
Telegraph and Texas Register, June 14, 1843
Event Type:
Date: June 28 1843
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American A Mexican farmer is killed by Indians (probably Comanches) near the Alamo.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.426021000000
Longitude: -98.486144000000
Longitude: -98.486144000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, July 12, 1843.
Event Type:
Date: June 28 1843
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American A Mexican farmer is killed by Indians (probably Comanches) near the Alamo.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.426021000000
Longitude: -98.486144000000
Longitude: -98.486144000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, July 12, 1843.
Event Type:
Date: July 4, 1843
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White As part of the ongoing border conflict between Texas and Mexico, an expedition under the command of Jacob Snively seeks to raid Mexican merchants along the Santa Fe Trail.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 36.115199000000
Longitude: -101.559891000000
Longitude: -101.559891000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 93.
Event Type:
Date: Early June 1844
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A series of engagements with a Comanche raiding party in the Corpus Christi area results in four Anglos killed, and four wounded. Twenty Indians are reported killed in the fighting.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.688399000000
Longitude: -97.409421000000
Longitude: -97.409421000000
Citation:
Margaret Swett Henson, ed. The Texas That Might Have Been: Sam Houston’s Foes Write to Albert Sidney Johnston (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009), 189-90
Event Type:
Date: June 8-9, 1844
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A company of fifteen rangers led by Capt. Jack Hays engages a large party of Comanches in a running battle along the Guadalupe River. One Texan, German immigrant Peter Fohr, and approximately 20 Indians are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.958705000000
Longitude: -98.716905000000
Longitude: -98.716905000000
Citation:
Eugene Hollon and Ruth Lapham Butler, eds. William Bollaert’s Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956), 377-78.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 75-77.
Clarksville Northern Standard, July 20, 1844.
Lorna Geer Sheppard, ed., An Editor’s View of Early Texas (Austin: Eakin Press, 1998), 62.
Event Type: