Battle of Stone Houses

The Skirmish of Stone Houses
Date November 10, 1837 Location near present-day Windthorst, Texas 33°25′53.94″N 98°27′26.67″W / 33.4316500°N 98.4574083°W / 33.4316500; -98.4574083 (Stone Houses Battlefield) Result Kichai victory
Belligerents
Texas Rangers	Kichai
Commanders and leaders
William M. Eastland A. B. Van Benthusen	unknown
Strength
18	150 to 180
Casualties and losses
10 killed	ranger's estimate: about 50 killed (probably exaggerated)[1]
Stone Houses Battlefield class=notpageimage| Location within Texas

The Battle of Stone Houses was a skirmish between Texas Rangers and a band of Kichai Indians which took place on November 10, 1837. The skirmish, which took place ten miles south of what is now Windthorst, Texas, was named for three stone mounds near the battlefield which appeared to the Indians to be small houses.^[2]