Ten miles south of present-day Windthorst, a party of 18 Texas rangers led by Lieutenant A. B. Van Benthuysen intercept a mixed band of Kichais (Wichita), Toweash and Waco (Wichita) numbering between 150 and 180. Ten rangers and 40 Indians are reported killed.
Date: November 10, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais, Wacos, Toweash
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tribe: Kichais, Wacos, Toweash
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.576216000000
Longitude: -98.436719000000
Longitude: -98.436719000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002) 1:268-281.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 142-43.
Telegraph and Texas Register, December 23, 1837.
Telegraph and Texas Register, February 3, 1838.
Telegraph and Texas Register, March 17, 1838.
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Date: July 19, 1843
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Toweash, Kichais, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A band of Wichitas attempts to steal horses of Lipan Apaches encamped on the Leon River, above Little River Fort. One Wichita (Toweash) is killed, one Wichita (Kaichai) is taken prisoner.
Tribe: Toweash, Kichais, Lipans
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.017530000000
Longitude: -97.403646000000
Longitude: -97.403646000000
Citation:
Clarksville Northern Standard, June 22, 1843
Lorna Geer Sheppard, ed., An Editor’s View of Early Texas (Austin: Eakin Press, 1998), 54.
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Date: November 3, 1844
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos, Toweash
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Two Austin youths, fourteen-year-old Emma Simpson and her twelve-year-old brother Thomas, are captured by Wichitas (Wacos and Toweash), 400 yards from the center of Austin. Emma is subsequently killed; Thomas is later returned.
Tribe: Wacos, Toweash
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 30.279228000000
Longitude: -97.769889000000
Longitude: -97.769889000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 101-02.
Senate Executive Documents, No. 14, 32nd Congress, 2nd Session, 133-35.
F. Todd Smith, The Wichita Indians: Traders of Texas and the Southern Plains, 1540-1845 (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2000), 152.
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