Texas History and genealogy, written by those who lived it.

[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. ...

The Story of Judge Roy Bean - J. Marvin Hunter

Published November 23rd, 2014 by Unknown

[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 ...

BLOODY INDIAN BATTLE ON SPRING CREEK, COLEMAN COUNTY, TEXAS

Published November 19th, 2014 by Unknown

Written by Warren Hunter, Harper, Texas [From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, December, 1927] LYING FACE TO FACE on a grassy hilltop, two boys were resting and reviewing ...

DARING EXPRESS MESSENGER KILLS TWO TRAIN ROBBERS

Published November 19th, 2014 by Unknown

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[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 ...

"Seco" Smith, Bandera County Pioneer - By J. Marvin Hunter

Published November 18th, 2014 by Unknown

[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 ...

Reminiscences of a Texas Ranger - Written by Ed Carnal

Published November 18th, 2014 by Unknown

In the spring of 1874 the Texas Legislature, then in session at Austin, passed an act authorizing the formation of a battalion of Rangers for service on the frontier as rapidly ...

INDIANS EAT A MAN ALIVE

Published November 17th, 2014 by Unknown

[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, May, 1950] Jim McIntyre, an ex-Texas Ranger, wrote an interesting account of the famous Loss Valley fight, which appeared in a book, &...

Mrs. Minerva Slaughter, Pioneer Mother

Published November 17th, 2014 by Unknown

[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 ...

The Trail Boss Passes On

Published November 17th, 2014 by Unknown

Cattlemen and Drives

GEORGE W. Saunders, aged 79, pioneer cattleman of Texas, died July 3rd, at 11:30 a. m. at his home in San Antonio. He had been in failing health for nearly a year. ...

George W. Saunders Rasps Critics of the Pioneers

Published November 17th, 2014 by Unknown

Cattlemen and Drives

[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1924] The Texas pioneers, the Texas ranchmen, the Old Trail Drivers—their great achievements and traditions—have been besmeared ...

Oliver Loving, the First Trail Driver - By Grace Miller White.

Published November 16th, 2014 by Unknown

[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 ...

Charles Goodnight, the Panhandle Pioneer - By J. Marvin Hunter

Published November 16th, 2014 by Unknown

[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 ...

Swimming Cattle Across the Canadian - By Captain Ira Aten, Texas Ranger

Published November 9th, 2014 by Unknown

[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1941] In 1898 there were three divisions of the XIT ranch lying south of the Canadian River—the Escarbada No. 5, ...

The Buzzard's Water Hole Gang and Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger

Published November 9th, 2014 by Unknown

[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1950] (EDITOR'S NOTE — Captain Bill McDonald was a noted Texas Ranger.and made quite a reputation for himself as ...

Mrs. Mary E. Billingsley: Pioneer Mother - By Maude Wallis Traylor

Published November 9th, 2014 by Unknown

[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 ...

Death of Ben Thompson and King Fisher - A. H. Gregory

Published November 5th, 2014 by Unknown

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[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 ...

AN OLD TIME TEXAN TELLS HIS STORY - by J. T. Wood, Parksdale, Texas

Published October 26th, 2014 by Unknown

[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1929] I was raised on the frontier of Texas, and know all about the privations and hardships of the early settlers ...

The Killing of Captain Frank Jones - By J. Marvin Hunter

Published October 25th, 2014 by Unknown

[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1929] Captain Frank Jones was a gallant Texas Ranger. He is remembered kindly by all of the Old Guard who are yet ...

Captain Adna R. Chaffee in Texas - By Colonel M. L. Crimmins

Published October 25th, 2014 by Unknown