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A BANDERA COUNTY TRAGEDY
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1924
During the days of the Civil War, Bandera County was the scene of several tragedies, the most prominent of which ...
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THE FRAZER-MILLER FEUD
From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, November 1944
When Jim B. Miller was hanged by a mob of citizens at Ada, Okla., last summer there ended the career of ...
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Sam Bass Song
Frontier Times has received a number of requests from subscribers, asking for the song, "Sam Bass." Recently we found this song in the Dallas Semi-Weekly Farm News. It Is believed ...
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A Train Robbery Prevented
From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, May, 1926
When President Wilson summoned to Washington Duval West of San Antonio to confer on the delicate situation in Mexico, preparatory to sending ...
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Attempted Train Robbery at Coleman, June, 1898
Written by J. Marvin Hunter
It was in June, 1898, that an attempt was made by four bandits to rob the express car on the Santa Fe railroad, running from Brownwood ...
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Ben Bickerstaff the Noted Desperado
By T. U. Taylor
Ben Bickerstaff was a fruit of the war. Although he was instinctively a gentleman, high strung, and of pronounced social ideals, his becoming a "bad ...
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La Caramboda, the Female Bandit
THE FOLLOWING story of the Mexican woman brigand, La Caramboda, appeared in the Bandera (Texas) Enterprise, July 10, 1884:
Queretaro, Mexico, June 8, 1884.—La Caramboda, the woman brigand, long a terror to ...
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DARING EXPRESS MESSENGER KILLS TWO TRAIN ROBBERS
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1927]
IN THE NIGHT of March 13, 1912, Train No. 9, of the Southern Pacific, running between El Paso, and San Antonio, was held up ...
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Death of Ben Thompson and King Fisher - A. H. Gregory
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1928]
WHEN King Fisher, who has come down in history as the most notorious and colorful of all bandits on the ...
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KNEW HARRY LONGBAUGH
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, October, 1928]
Eldorado, Texas, Aug. 27, 1928.J. Marvin Hunter, Bandera, Texas.
Dear Sir:—I have just received the September number of Frontier ...
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More About the Career of John Wesley Hardin - By James Hatch, San Antonio, Texas
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1924]
In the April number of Frontier Times I read a very interesting sketch about John Wesley Hardin, written in 1911 by John ...
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Pearl Hart, Arizona Woman Bandit - J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1950]
ON our cover this month appears the portrait of Pearl Hart, a good girl spoiled by misfortune's cruel hand. ...
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Bill Longley, The Noted Desperado - J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
[From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1950]
William P. Longley was born on Mill Creek, in Austin county, Texas, October 6, 1851. He was the son of Campbell Longley, a good and upright ...
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