Biographical Sketches: Key Figures in the Texas–Comanche Conflict, 1836–1845

SAM HOUSTON (1793–1863)

President of the Republic of Texas (1836–1838; 1841–1844)

MIRABEAU B. LAMAR (1798–1859)

President of the Republic of Texas (1838–1841) García

MUGUARA (MUKE-WAR-RAH) (d. 1840)

Principal Chief of the Penateka Comanche

POTSANAQUAHIP / BUFFALO HUMP (c. 1800–c. 1867)

War Chief of the Penateka Comanche

MOPECHUCOPE / OLD OWL (d. 1849)

Principal Chief of the Penateka Comanche

COLONEL HENRY W. KARNES (1812–1840)

Texas Military Commander and Indian Commissioner

COLONEL EDWARD BURLESON (1798–1851)

Texas Military Commander

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CHIEF PLACIDO (c. 1800–1867)

War Chief of the Tonkawa Nation

JOHN O. MEUSEBACH (1812–1897)

Commissioner-General, German Emigration Company (Adelsverein)

NOAH SMITHWICK (1808–1899)

Settler, Frontiersman, and Memoirist