Killough Massacre

Date: October 5, 1838 • Location: Bullard, United States

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1838.

A Cherokee band attacked settlers near Larissa, Texas, killing or abducting 18 people.

The Cherokee or Tsalagi people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in their ancestral homelands, living in towns along river valleys in what is now southwestern North Carolina, southeastern Tennessee, southwestern Virginia, parts of western South Carolina, northern Georgia, and northeastern Alabama, with hunting grounds extending into Kentucky. Together, these lands encompassed approximately 40,000 square miles.