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The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize ...
- John Salmon Ford
John S. Ford as Texas Ranger, 1858. John Salmon Ford (May...
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Battle of Lyman's Wagon Train. Battle of the Neches. Battle...
- John Salmon Ford
American Indian Wars. The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, [note 1] was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, and later on by the Confederate States of America, Republic of Texas, Mexico and the United States of America against various American Indian tribes in North America.
Location within Texas. The Battle of Yellow House Canyon was a battle between a force of Comanches and Apaches against a group of American bison hunters that occurred on March 18, 1877, near the site of the present-day city of Lubbock, Texas. It was the final battle of the Buffalo Hunters' War, and was the last major fight involving the United ...
Visitors. Historical Services. Research. Articles. Historic Events & Stories. The Salt Creek Massacre. Salt Creek Massacre is also known as the Warren Wagon Train Massacre. On May 18, 1871, an Indian raid took place nine miles from Graham, Texas on a lonely stretch in the Loving Valley and the Salt Creek Prairie.
The Apache Wars were a series of armed conflicts between the United States Army and various Apache tribal confederations fought in the southwest between 1849 and 1886, though minor hostilities continued until as late as 1924. After the Mexican–American War in 1846, the United States annexed conflicted territory from Mexico which was the home ...
- 1849-1924
- American victory
- Southwestern United States
The Buffalo Hunters' War, or the Staked Plains War, occurred in 1877. Approximately 170 Comanche warriors and their families led by Quohadi chief Black Horse or Tu-ukumah (unknown–ca. 1900) left the Indian Territory in December, 1876, for the Llano Estacado of Texas. In February, 1877, they, and their Apache allies, began attacking buffalo ...
- 1876-1877
- Buffalo hunters victory
- Texas, Oklahoma
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Armed conflict between different tribes and later between Indians and European settlers continued until the late Nineteenth Century. Spanish, Mexican, Republic of Texas and U.S. militaries all established facilities to protect settlers and launched expeditions against various Indian tribes.
