In 1847 a Comanche war party started for Mexico from North Texas. Traveling outside the settlements, as agreed by treaty, they were attacked anyway by a ranger force under Captain William G. Crump. Comanche war Captain Carnebonahit followed the rangers and stole seven horses. The Comanches made a trail to one of the last Lipan villages to even an old score. The rangers followed the trail to the Lipan village. Chiquito, the Lipan Chief, tried to explain the situation, but the rangers did not listen; they killed 30 people and stole 200 horses. The surviving Lipans abandoned their Central Texas homeland and moved to Mexico, raiding back into Texas for years in an effort to get even.

Stephen B. Oats (ed.) Rip Ford’s Texas, By John Salmon Ford, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963.