CategoryComancheria

Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Crooked Creek From the book, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars, by Gregory F. Michno. Van Dorn Attacks Comanches on Crooked Creek, 1859 The following story is from the book, Tribal Wars of the...

Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria 22 July 1863; Conchas, New Mexico: Navajo warriors attacked a three-man detachment of Company I, 1st New Mexico Cavalry, guarding a herd of beef cattle at Conchas Springs, near the...

Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Twenty-five thousand Texans volunteered to fight for the Confederacy by the end of 1861. Two-thirds of them were cavalry; as a British observer noted, "No Texan walks a yard if he...

Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria 5 March 1854; Conchas, New Mexico: When a band of Jicarilla Apaches ran off cattle from the Fort Union herd, Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke sent Lt. David Bell in pursuit. Leading 30...

Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Ca April 14, 1853; Graham, Texas: In the spring of 1853, Capt. Henry H. Sibley commanded Fort Croghan on Hamilton Creek, fourteen miles above its junction with the Colorado River. In...

Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria June 1, 1882; Cloverdale, New Mexico: In April 1882 Apache chief Loco and several hundred Chiricahuas broke out from the San Carlos Agency, killing about forty settlers on their way to...

Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria American Ranch | Bent's Old Fort | Big Timber | Blackwater Spring | Cedar Canyon | Chicosa Arroyo | Dog Creek | Eayre's Fight | Fishers Peak | Fort Collins | Fort Garland | Fort Lyon |...