Indians kill nine Spanish soldiers in the hills north of San Antonio.
Date: Late April 1820
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.424122000000
Longitude: -98.493628000000
Longitude: -98.493628000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska 2006), 110.
Event Type:
Date: August 1833
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) An Anglo-American surveying party is attacked by 60 Indians on Walnut Creek above Pecan Spring, in present-day northeast Austin. One surveyor, Christian Strother, is killed.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.275104000000
Longitude: -97.656830000000
Longitude: -97.656830000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 23-25.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 8-12.
Event Type:
Date: 1833
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Surveying party led by A. Legrand is attacked by Snake Indians near present-day Texhoma. Nine Indians and three whites are killed.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 36.504559000000
Longitude: -101.778687000000
Longitude: -101.778687000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 27-28.
Event Type:
Date: June 1, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Driving wagons of merchandise from Columbia to Bastrop, Amos Alexander and his son, Amos Alexander, Jr. are attacked by Indians 35 miles southeast of Bastrop at the headwaters of Pin Oak Creek.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.007101000000
Longitude: -97.070007000000
Longitude: -97.070007000000
Citation:
John Holmes Jenkins III, Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958), 239-40.
Event Type:
Date: October 5, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Margaret McClellan and her two children are captured by Indians in Robertson colony on the San Gabriel River. Exact location unknown, but roughly forty miles north of present-day Austin. They soon escape and are found by a search party led by her husband a few days later.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 30.726593000000
Longitude: -97.809451000000
Longitude: -97.809451000000
Citation:
“Female fortitude,” Telegraph and Texas Register, October 17, 1835.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 190-92.
Event Type:
Date: 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Austin colonist John Taylor is killed by Indians near present day Anderson.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.490051000000
Longitude: -96.003783000000
Longitude: -96.003783000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 229.
Event Type:
Date: Summer 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Anglo settlers John Marlin, Laban Menefee and Jarrett Menefee kill four Indians five miles above the Brazos Falls, near present-day Bucksnort.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.309752000000
Longitude: -96.996221000000
Longitude: -96.996221000000
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), 198.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 232.
Event Type:
Date: Januarry 17, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Fifteen rangers under George B. Erath attack a party of approximately 100 Indians on Elm Creek in Milam County, eight miles from present-day Cameron. Ten Indians and two whites (Clark Childers and Frank Childers) are killed.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.804189000000
Longitude: -97.169463000000
Longitude: -97.169463000000
Citation:
George B. Erath, The Memoirs of Major George B. Erath: as Dictated to Lucy A. Erath (Waco: The Heritage Society of Waco, 1956), 48-52.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar. Edited by Charles Adam Gulick, et al. (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), 1:212-219.
Event Type:
Date: April 28, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Indians stampede horses near Fort Smith, at the junction of the Leon and Lampasas Rivers, five miles southeast of present-day Belton.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.984420000000
Longitude: -97.401521000000
Longitude: -97.401521000000
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), 1: 245.
Event Type:
Date: May 10, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A company of volunteers organized in response to the theft of cattle and horses along the Neches River is attacked by Indians. Three Anglos--John Sheridan, Dan McLean, and James Barnes are killed near present-day Elkhart.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.382507000000
Longitude: -94.949720000000
Longitude: -94.949720000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:248-50.
Telegraph and Texas Register, May 23, 1836
Event Type:
Date: Fall 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Two men are killed by Indians in front of a church during Sunday services in Nashville, five miles northeast of present-day Gause.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.819201000000
Longitude: -96.671545000000
Longitude: -96.671545000000
Citation:
Z. N. Morrell, Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness: or, Thirty-Six Years in Texas and Two Winters in Honduras (Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1872), 69.
Event Type:
Date: Early 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Stillman S. Curtis, a surveyor, is killed and his horse stolen by Indians near the Little River, three miles north of present-day Gause.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.836744000000
Longitude: -96.714001000000
Longitude: -96.714001000000
Citation:
George B. Erath, The Memoirs of Major George B. Erath: as Dictated to Lucy A. Erath (Waco: The Heritage Society of Waco, 1956), 56.
Event Type:
Date: April 15, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Henry Moss is killed by Indians along the Brazos River, sixty miles above Washington (near present-day Calvert).
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.969101000000
Longitude: -96.765478000000
Longitude: -96.765478000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 4:420.
Telegraph and Texas Register, April 25, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: May 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of nine surveyors is attacked by 30 Indians near the headwaters of Yegua Creek (present day Lake Somerville). One Indian is killed.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.322763000000
Longitude: -96.759437000000
Longitude: -96.759437000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, May 30, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: May 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of settlers is attacked by Indians near Tenoxtitlan, 14 miles northeast of present-day Caldwell. Two settlers (Bigham and Reed) and one Indian are killed. A third Anglo, Mr. Lawson, is severely wounded.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.625371000000
Longitude: -96.877154000000
Longitude: -96.877154000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, May 30, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: August 13, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Two Indians are killed by Anglos after stealing horses from a settlement on the Lavaca River.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.405162000000
Longitude: -96.912961000000
Longitude: -96.912961000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, September 1, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: Early December 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Two rangers, McCarty, son of William McCarty, and William Dority, are killed by Indians while collecting hogs on Bois d’Arc Creek near Orangeville, ten miles southwest of present-day Bonham.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.517052000000
Longitude: -96.370308000000
Longitude: -96.370308000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:117-118.
Date: December 5, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Joseph Harris is killed by Indians near Fort Sherman, thirteen miles southwest of Mt. Pleasant.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.059061000000
Longitude: -95.096914000000
Longitude: -95.096914000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:274.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:113.
Event Type:
Date: May 14,1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Mexican Indian agent Manuel Flores and his party of 30 Mexicans and Indian allies attack the surveying party of Louis Franks near the road between Seguin and San Antonio. Three surveyors are killed.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.437382000000
Longitude: -98.248031000000
Longitude: -98.248031000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:203.
Telegraph and Texas Register, May 29, 1839
Event Type:
Date: November 11, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Militiamen John J. Earle and Phillip Whepler are killed by Indians on Richland creek, between the Trinity and Brazos Rivers.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.136832000000
Longitude: -97.003028000000
Longitude: -97.003028000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:316.
Event Type: