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- In 1858, Texas Ranger John Salmon “Rip” Ford led 100 Rangers in a six-month campaign against Comanches. The Rangers were joined by an equal number of Tonkawas, who were traditionally enemies of Comanches. Working together, the Rangers and Tonkawas tracked Comanches with orders to punish them for the devastating raids they had conducted in Texas.
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The Battle was the first in which the Texas Rangers successfully advanced into Comancheria. The United States rallied a force of 100 Texas Rangers and 113 allies where the Comanches rallied a force between the range of 200-600.
- 1706-1875
As the Comanche were heading back west, a posse of Texas Rangers and militia caught up with them as they crossed Plum Creek, near present-day Lockhart, Texas. An estimated 25-80 Comanche were killed, the rest fled to West Texas. The pursuers reported one dead, and seven wounded.
The Texas Legislature approved the first permanent Ranger force in 1874. The Rangers and the U.S. Army drove the last Comanche and Kiowa out of the state soon after. In response, increasing numbers of settlers headed to the Texas frontier and created a new set of conflicts for the Rangers to police.
The Council House Fight, often referred to as the Council House Massacre, was a fight between soldiers and officials of the Republic of Texas and a delegation of Comanche chiefs during a peace conference in San Antonio on March 19, 1840.
- March 19, 1840
- Entire Comanche peace delegation killed
- San Antonio, Republic of Texas
The powerful Comanche emerged as the most powerful of the Amerindian societies that fought across Texas. Comprised of a federation of affiliated tribes, this warlike people...
During Houston's presidency, the Texas Rangers fought the Battle of Stone Houses against the Kichai on November 10, 1837; they were outnumbered and defeated. Comanches of West Texas in war regalia, c. 1830. The Indian problems of the first Houston administration were symbolized by the Córdova Rebellion. Evidence existed that a widespread ...
The main reason was money. Between the Indians incensed at white settlers encroaching on their land, and Mexico, which had never acknowledged the independence of its former territory, the...
