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MARY E. BELL OF KIMBLE COUNTY, TEXAS DESCRIBES PIONEER LIFE
From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1941
There is now living in London, in the northeast corner of Kimble county, on the waters of the Big Saline Creek, one ...
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Some Early Bell County History - L. A. Chanslor
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, March, 1928]
THREE YEARS after the organization of Bell county and in the fall of the year 1856, there was a decided movement ...
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Early History of Camp San Saba
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, March, 1933]
THE ROAD LEADING from Fort Mason, said to have been established in 1850 by direction of Col. Harvey of the Second ...
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From a Former Texan - Some Early Kimble County History
Editor Frontier Times.
Bandera, Texas.
I am an old timer from Texas, and, a few weeks ago a neighbor who recently came here to live, called on me. She learned ...
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Kimble Co. History Tells of Pioneer Struggles - By Coke R. Stevenson, Jr.
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, September, 1930]
THE TERRITORY embraced in Kimble County, was formerly a part of Bexar County. Several volumes of the county records were transcribed from ...
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Louis Schmidt of Mason County, Texas - J. Marvin Hunter
From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, February, 1929]
In 1872 a sixteen-year-old lad by the name of Louis Schmidt drifted into Mason. He boarded with the sheriff, acted as jailor ...
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The Story of the Old French Colony
By Louise Boyer, in Texas History Teachers' Bulletin, October 22, 1924
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, October, 1935]
WHILE THE PRINCIPAL events connected with the early colonization and settlement of ...
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Frio County History - Mrs. W. A. Roberts
We offer first, an introduction to the author, Mrs. W. A. Roberts, followed by her actual account of very early days in Frio County, TX.
[From J. Marvin Hunter's ...
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Some Early Bell County History - L.A. Changer, Ritteen, Texas.
[From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, March, 1928]
THREE YEARS after the organization of Bell county and in the fall of the year 1856, there was a decided movement of the Mormon ...
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Founding of San Saba County - Alma Ward Hamrick
[From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1934]
THE EIGHTIETH anniversary of the founding of San Saba county is being commemorated by San Sabans during 1934 in a series of programs, articles written ...
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Early Gillespie County, TX History - Heroines of the Hills
From January, 1941 Hunter's FRONTIER TIMES MAGAZINE article "Heroines of the Hills" by T.U. Taylor
GILLESPIE COUNTY
Gillespie county has a unique history in comparison with the other counties of ...
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Early Hays County, TX History.
Very early HAYS COUNTY TEXAS history
From Hunter's FRONTIER TIMES MAGAZINE, Feb., 1941
Part of the series "Heroines of the Hills" by T.U. Taylor
We are compelled for the sake ...
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