Date |
Native Group |
Location |
Notes |
Source |
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1870 |
Seminole Maroon |
Parras |
150 are living here under John
Horse. |
Mulroy 1993:111 |
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Seminole Maroon |
Nacimiento |
100 living here under John
Kibbetts. |
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Seminole Maroon |
Matamoros |
Several
families of Seminole Maroon moved to Matamoros. |
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Seminole Maroon |
Texas |
Elijah Daniels band had settled
in Texas. |
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1870, Jan |
Indians |
Pecos River, below Fort Lancaster |
Soldiers on patrol see Indians,
but unable to identify their ethnicity. |
Swanson n.d.: 183 |
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1870, June |
Comanche, Lipan, Mescalero |
15 miles NW of Piedras Negras |
US Counsul in Piedras Negras
states that these natives live 15 miles to the northwest and often raid in
the US. |
Consul
Dispaches, MC, |
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M279, reel 1 |
1870, July |
Seminole Maroon |
Fort Duncan, Elm Creek |
One Seminole Maroon group move
to here with permission of Army & will become scouts. For the next 5
years, more & more Maroon crossed to assist the scouts. However, the Maroon at Parras largely returned to Nacimiento. |
Mulroy 1993:113 |
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1870, Oct |
Kickapoo |
Fort Inge |
Kickapoo begin attacking in
Uvalde area & travel to the upper Nueces. |
Swanson n.d.:188 |
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1870, Dec |
Kickapoo |
Mouth of the Devils |
Kickapoo, found in vicinity of
Fort Clark, were chased by soldiers to this location where they crossed into
Mexico. |
Swanson n.d.:188 |
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1871, May |
Kickapoo |
Uvalde area |
Kickapoo are reported to have
stolen 100 horses here. |
Swanson n.d.:202 |
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1871, June |
Apaches |
Pecos to Llano Estacado |
Lt. Col. Shafter found Apache
throughout this region. |
Crimmins Collection |
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1871, July |
Kickapoo |
Mexico, Red River |
Col. Reynolds letter requested
to move the Kickapoo to where the remainder are on the Red River. |
Winfrey & Day 1995 Vol.
4:332 |
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1871, Fall |
Black Creeks |
Fort Clark, Nueces River |
Black Creeks of Elijah Daniels'
band, were recruited to enlist in the U.S. Army Scouts, to serve at Fort
Clark. |
Porter 1996:180 |
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1872, Mar |
Comanche |
San Saba, Lampasas, & Llano
counties |
Major Hatch reports seeing 150
Comanche & believes that they are "operating" in these three
counties. |
Brown et al. 1998:31 |
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1872, June |
Seminole Maroon |
Fort Clark |
25 scouts & families moved
to this fort. |
Mulroy 1993:115 |
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1872, July |
Creek Negro |
Fort
Clark |
Five Creek Negro enlist as
scouts at Fort Clark. |
Swanson n.d.:215 |
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1872, Aug |
Seminole Maroon |
Fort Clark |
All Maroon moved here with
families; they are settled on Las Moras Creek. |
Mulroy 1993:115 |
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1873 |
Seminole Maroon |
San Felipe Springs |
Seminole Maroon
reported to camp here, at times. |
Swanson n.d.:223 |
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1873 |
Comanche, Seminole Maroon |
Lower Nueces |
Lt. Hudson left Fort Clark w/
Seminole Maroon to scout for the Comanche who had been raiding in area. |
Crimmins Collection |
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1873 |
Kickapoo, Lepan |
80 miles from Ft. Clark |
Mackenzie w/ 25 Seminole scouts
attacked camp of these 2 nations. |
Crimmins Collection |
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1873,
April |
Kickapoo |
Dolores Ranch, 8 mi. s. of Ft.
Clark |
Kickapoo raided this ranch. |
Mulroy 1993:118 |
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1873,
April |
Kickapoo, Mescalero Apache, Lipan |
Howard's Well, Nueces Valley |
Seminole Maroon & Army find
Mescalero & Lipan at this locale; one officer killed. |
Mulroy 1993:118 |
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1873, May |
Kickapoo, Lipan |
Lower Pecos, Las Moras Creek |
Mackenzie reports that these
tribes raid in the Lower Pecos and south of Fort Clark. He follows them to
the Quemado crossing and follows them 60 miles into Mexico. |
Swanson n.d.:237-238 |
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Mescalero |
Zaragosa |
Mackenzie reports that the
Mescalero were then in Zaragosa. |
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1873, May |
Kickapoo, Mescalero Apache, Lipan |
Remolino |
Mackenzie's cavalry attacked
these nations in retaliation for the April raids. |
Crimmins Collection |
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1873, May |
Seminole Maroon |
Remolino |
They were the scouts on this
expedition. |
Mulroy 1993:117 |
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1873, July |
Kickapoo, Potawatomi |
Coahuila |
75 individuals agree to go to
Indian Territory. |
Swanson n.d:253 |
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1873, Aug |
Kickapoo |
Muzquiz |
317 Kickapoo leave Muzquiz for
Indian territory. |
Mulroy 1993:121 |
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1873, Nov |
Kiowa |
South Kickapoo Springs |
Kiowa are sighted at the
springs, riding to Mexico. |
Swanson n.d.:256 |
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1873, Dec |
Seminole Maroon, Kiowa, Comanche |
Kickapoo Springs |
Seminole Maroon scouts with
Captain Hudson sight and engage Kiowa and Comanche near Kickapoo Springs.
Kiowa chief, Lone Wolf's son was killed in the battle. |
Porter 1996:187 |
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1874, Aug |
Seminole Maroon, Tonkawa, Lipan |
Fort Clark |
Members
of these were all scouts for Mackenzie at this date. |
Mulroy 1993:122 |
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1875 |
Comanche |
Pecos River |
Bullis reported scouting trip
along Pecos to find any Indians; after several days, Army crossed Pecos about
a mile from the confluence w/ Rio Grande on "an Indian trail" and
marched ca. 6 miles SE to a cave (called Painted Cave) where there was a
spring; no fresh Indian sign, "but pleanty of old;" then they
traveled to Eagle's Nest crossing; there they found a trail of ca. 75 horses;
they followed it & found Comanches trying to move the herd across the
Pecos. |
Crimmins Collection |
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1874,
April |
Kickapoo |
Lower Pecos, Rio Grande |
Army reports say that the
Kickapoo are using several of the crossings to raid in Texas. |
Swanson n.d.:336 |
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1875,
April |
Seminole Maroon, Comanche |
Lower Pecos (Eagle's Nest
Crossing) |
Two Seminole Maroon risked their
lives to save Lt. Bullis during a fight with Comanche at this location. |
Mulroy 1993:124; Porter 1996:193 |
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1875, May |
Seminole Maroon, Comanche |
Fort Clark, Nacimiento |
Some Seminole Maroon return to
Mexico because of poor rations at Fort Clark. |
Swanson n.d.:280 |
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1875, Aug |
Kickapoo |
Nacimiento to Oklahoma |
ca. 115 travel from Nacimiento
area on their way to Indian Territory; the remainder of the Kickapoo stay in
Mexico. (see September 1878 entry below.) |
Swanson n.d.:286 |
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1875, Oct |
Comanche |
Eagles Nest (Langtry) &
Howard's Well |
Army follows recent sign of
Comanche from the Eagles Nest crossing of the Rio Grande (Langtry) to
Howard's Well. |
Swanson n.d.:287 |
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1875, Nov |
Seminole Maroon, Apache |
Shafter's Crossing of the Rio
Grande |
Lt. Geddes and his scouts
attacked Apaches at this crossing 60 miles above the mouth of the Rio Grande. |
Porter 1996:194 |
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1876 |
Lipan, Kickapoo |
Del Rio |
These nations are said to be
crossing the Rio Grande at San Felipe Springs to avoid the army at Eagles
Nest Crossing. |
Swanson n.d.:305 |
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1876,
April |
Lipan |
Kinney, Uvalde, & Val Verde
counties |
Army reports indicate that from
April through June, raids by the Lipan were common; the Lipan were stated to
be using the Eagles Nest crossing of the Rio Grande. |
Swanson n.d.:275 |
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1876, May |
Kickapoo |
Fort Clark |
Army documents show the Kickapoo
to be raiding in the area of Fort Clark. |
Swanson n.d.:295 |
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1876, July |
Seminole Maroon |
Mouth of the Pecos |
Shafter and the scouts establed
a base camp in this locale. |
Porter 1996:198 |
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1876, Aug |
Lipan |
Zaragoza |
A Lipan village was found here;
it was destroyed by Bullis. |
Mulroy 1993:126 |
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1877 |
Indians |
Pecos River |
Bullis left Ft. Clark on Indian
trail; "this trail was found ca. 70 miles above the mouth of the Pecos
River." |
Crimmins Collection |
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1877 |
Lipan, Comanche, Seminole Maroon |
Mouth of the Pecos |
Maroon scouts trail Comanche
& Lipan from Gillespie Co to the mouth of the Pecos; later the crossing
is known as Bullis Crossing. |
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1877,
April |
Indians |
San Felipe Springs |
Army reports an engagement here;
all escape. |
Swanson n.d.:316 |
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1877, June |
Lipan |
San Felipe Springs |
A party of Lipan cross the Rio
Grande here and travel to Camp Wood in Edwards County. |
Swanson n.d.:319 |
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1877, Sept |
Lipan, Mescalero |
mouth of Las Moras Creek |
These Apache are reported to
frequently use this crossing of the Rio Grande. |
Swanson n.d.:321 |
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1877, Oct |
Mescalero |
Eagles Nest crossing |
Bullis pursues Mescalero
to this crossing. |
Swanson n.d.:323 |
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1877, Nov |
Seminole Maroon, Apache |
Pecan Springs near headwaters of
the Devils River |
Bullis and the Seminole Maroon
meet here and then trail Apache south to Mexico along the river. |
Porter 1996:203 |
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1878 |
Lipan |
Santa Rosa |
Gen'l Ord to Chicago wrote that
the Lipan were in a camp here for over a year. |
Winfrey & Day 1995 Vol.
4:402 |
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1878,
June |
Apache |
Sierra Blanca |
Carpenter, a scout, finds "a large rancheria…and there
were many signs that it has been much frequented by the Apaches." |
US Army, Pecos District, reel
5:62 |
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1878,
Sept |
Kickapoo |
Devils River south |
Near a dry lake marked on maps,
about 3 miles to the south, a scouting party found wickiups in clumps of
timber near a tinaja. It was known as Geddes Spring in 1875. Also found an
Indian grave. Capt. Kennedy states that he assumed the place to have been a
resting place of the Kickapoo who had crossed to the head of the Concho in
their move from Mexico in 1871 (see August
1875 entry, above.) |
US Army, Pecos District, reel
5:92 |
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1879. Oct |
Seminole Maroon |
Pecos River, at Pena Blanca |
Seminole Maroon traveled with
Bullis to identify a wagon road crossing of the Pecos |
Mulroy 1993:129 |
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