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"AUNT MARY" PRUITT - By T.U. Taylor, Austin, Texas
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, October, 1940]
There is a legend to the effect that if a person gets a drink of Blanco water, such person will ...
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Tobe Joy Was A Noted Frontiersman - J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, December, 1950]
Tobe Joy, whose photograph adorns the cover page of Frontier Times this month, was a typical Texas pioneer and frontiersman. ...
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The Story of Judge Roy Bean - J. Marvin Hunter
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, May, 1948]
Roy Bean has been praised and maligned by writers in song and story; many fictitious stories have been told about ...
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"Seco" Smith, Bandera County Pioneer - By J. Marvin Hunter
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, July, 1926]
Some years ago, when I was gathering and compiling material for the "Pioneer History of Bandera County," I ...
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Mrs. Minerva Slaughter, Pioneer Mother
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, July, 1933]
THIS ARTICLE is offered as a memorial to Mrs. Minerva Slaughter, nee, Mabry, who died at Taylor, Texas, May 24, 1895. This ...
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Oliver Loving, the First Trail Driver - By Grace Miller White.
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1942]
For half a century dust of the cattle trails out of Texas has been buried in plowed fields and lost ...
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Charles Goodnight, the Panhandle Pioneer - By J. Marvin Hunter
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1942]
The name of Charles Goodnight stands head and shoulders above that of any other pioneer cowman in Texas, and ...
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Mrs. Mary E. Billingsley: Pioneer Mother - By Maude Wallis Traylor
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, March, 1939]
There are only too few pioneers living today, who have actually seen Texas history in the making; and especially one ...
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The Name of Andrews in Texas History - By Marjorie Rogers, Marlin, Texas
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1936]
THE NAME of Andrews is listed with the great pioneer builders of Texas. The last statement of Big Dick Andrews, ...
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Fabian A.Hicks, a Bandera County Pioneer - By J. Marvin Hunter
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1937]
On July 7th, 1937, there passed from this life a real pioneer—a man born and raised in Bandera county, ...
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Gerome Shield, Typical Texas Sheriff
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, March, 1932]
GEROME W. SHIELD, whose death occurred at San Angelo, Texas, January 3rd, 1932, was a typical Texas sheriff of the old ...
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MRS. JOSEPHINE JOHNSON - By Her Son, Adam Johnson
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, November, 1940]
My mother was reared by a wealthy step-father, an extensive plantation operator and owner of a considerable number of negroes. ...
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Henry Taylor, A Pioneer - By J. Marvin Hunter
A FEW weeks ago it was my pleasure to visit one of the grand old pioneers of the Sabinal Valley in Bandera county, Texas, Captain Henry Taylor, early day ranchman, ...
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TRAGIC LIFE OF PIONEER WOMAN - MRS. CLARA FELLER
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, May, 1930]
WIDOWED BY A mob of lynching whites, deprived of her home soon after by the discovery that it had been ...
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Joseph Young Latham, Early Day School Teacher - Miss Rina Latham
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, December, 1949]
Joseph Young Latham, (familiarly known as Dode Latham), was born in Blanco county, Texas, February 22, 1865, on Spring Creek, near the junction ...
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THE STORY OF BAGDAD PRAIRIE FROM 1851 TO 1870 - By James E. Babcock
Early Williamson County, Texas History. From Frontier Times Magazine, March, 1940
My father, Charles Babcock, moved to Bagdad Prairie the day after Christmas in 1851. He was originally from the northern part ...
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Mrs Lucy (Wells) Stevens
From an article by T. U. Taylor in J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, Sep., 1940]
This pioneer woman of Bandera county was born in 1847 and was four years old ...
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FROM CHARLIE SIRINGO
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, November, 1928]
Chas. A. Siringo, writer from, Altadena, California, as follows:—With great pleasure I read your article on the Hole-in-the-Wall "Wild Bunch" ...
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Henry Nowlin Kerr County Pioneer - J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, February, 1948]
The Hill Country section of Texas mourns the loss of one of its prominent and highly respected citizens, Henry M. ...
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