Henry Stevenson Brown 1829 Indian Expedition Cache — Llano County

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Henry Stevenson Brown 1829 Indian Expedition Cache — Llano County

Lost Treasure TX • Llano County County
Description
Enchanted Rock legend of a punitive-expedition cache from Captain Henry S. Brown's 1829 Indian raid — the first recorded Anglo-Texan visit to the granite dome.
Historical Notes
Captain Henry S. Brown, coming from Green DeWitt's colony on a punitive Indian expedition in 1829, appears to have been the first Anglo-Texan to visit Enchanted Rock according to the Handbook of Texas. William B. DeWees described the rock in 1834. Frontier militia folklore sometimes places emergency specie along punitive-expedition routes where volunteer companies carried pay and plunder through Comanche country. Brown's visit predates John Coffee Hays's 1841 standoff by a dozen years. Coordinates approximate Enchanted Rock west of State Highway 965 at the Gillespie–Llano county line.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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