Post by bobdurham on Oct 17, 2007 19:14:39 GMT -5
This is pre-Texas Republic but I couldn't think of where else to post it. . . I ran across this article today and I thought some might find it interesting. I was surprised by the part in the article about the Comanches, I always thought they were the tribe that other tribes feared. Maybe the tribes from east of the Mississippi had more and better firearms than they had, which might explain it. Anyway, here it is:
BELLEFONTAINE REPUBLICAN AND LOGAN REGISTER.
BELLEFONTAINE, LOGAN CO., OHIO – SEPTEMBER 18, 1830. VOL. I, NO. ?
WAR AMONG THE INDIANS.
It appears that a kind of exterminating war has broken out between the Cherokees, Shawnees, Delawares, & other tribes of Northern Indfians, lately removed to Texas, and the Tahuacanies, Wacus [sic], and Comanches. Col. Bean writes from Nacogdoches under date of 29th May, to a gentleman in this place, that the Cherokees, and Kipapoos [sic] have gone to war with the Tahuacanies and Wacos; that they have had one battle, in which the latter lost thirty killed, and the former five.
It also seems that the Comanches have been driven from their former hunting grounds at the heads of the Brazos and Colorado, and forced to seek a refuge in the South Western part of Texas, and on the Nueces and Rio Grande, by a tribe of Indians heretofore unknown to them.
Texas Gazette.
BELLEFONTAINE REPUBLICAN AND LOGAN REGISTER.
BELLEFONTAINE, LOGAN CO., OHIO – SEPTEMBER 18, 1830. VOL. I, NO. ?
WAR AMONG THE INDIANS.
It appears that a kind of exterminating war has broken out between the Cherokees, Shawnees, Delawares, & other tribes of Northern Indfians, lately removed to Texas, and the Tahuacanies, Wacus [sic], and Comanches. Col. Bean writes from Nacogdoches under date of 29th May, to a gentleman in this place, that the Cherokees, and Kipapoos [sic] have gone to war with the Tahuacanies and Wacos; that they have had one battle, in which the latter lost thirty killed, and the former five.
It also seems that the Comanches have been driven from their former hunting grounds at the heads of the Brazos and Colorado, and forced to seek a refuge in the South Western part of Texas, and on the Nueces and Rio Grande, by a tribe of Indians heretofore unknown to them.
Texas Gazette.
