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Battle at Painted Rock remembered by Texas Rangers
Frontier Times recalls Emory Gibbons and fellow Rangers under Capt. Jack Hays who fought 600 Comanche at Painted Rock in Concho county. The Texas frontier clash lasted two and a half days, with a weary defense near Enchanted Rock as scouts tracked raiders from Medina to a lakeside camp.
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Emory Gibbons
San Antonio
Jack Hays
Texas Ranger
Henry Castro
Castroville
Louis XIV
Lone Star
Texas
Paint Rock
Concho County
Hays
Texas Rangers
FE. M. Harrison
State
Harrison
Frontier Battalion
R. A. Gillespie
Ben McCulloch
Barrison
Gibbons
Gilespie
Medina River
Brownsville
United States Army
Corpus Christi
Taylor
Major Hays
Captain Gillespie
Placida
Bill Chisom
Enchanted Rock
Painted Rock
Lundred
Colt