09/11/2026
Long before Katy and Houston became booming cities, this was dangerous Texas frontier.
Settlers faced deadly Indian raids and a fight for survival. It’s a forgotten chapter of local history most Houstonians have never heard.
More than a decade before the Texas Revolution, Stephen F. Austin’s colony was fighting a violent frontier conflict just west of present-day Houston and Katy, Texas. During the 1820s, settlers clashed with Karankawa, Tonkawa and other Native American groups across the Brazos and Colorado river set...