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W. W. Lewis
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1927]
One of the outstanding figures of frontier days around Menard, Texas, is William W. Lewis, but when you meet this ...
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CAPTAIN JUNE PEAK
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1927]
Captain June Peak, now past 83 years old, is one of the heroic Old Guard, who takes great interest in the ...
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Richard (Dick) Robertson Russell
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1927]
Richard Robertson Russell was born in Dawson county, Georgia, October 8th, 1858. the son of J. O. and Jane Robertson Russell. ...
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SERG'T. ED. A. SIEKER
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1927]
Above is shown a photo of Sergt. Ed A. Sieker, a well known Texas Ranger, member of Company D, Capt. ...
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CAPTAIN DAN W. ROBERTS
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1927]
[This brief sketch is one of numerous articles on Capt. Roberts - see for example]
Prominent among the Ranger captains ...
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Rode for the Purple Mask
Written for Frontier Times by Marjorie Rogers, Marlin, Texas
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1928]
“THE FIRST TIME that I ever saw Billy the Kid was in ...
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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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Trail Historian Corrects Errors
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1932]
THE FAMED Chisholm cattle trail, about which more has been written than any other southwestern trail cannot be traced in Texas for ...
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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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MURDER OF MRS. HUNTER AND HER DAUGHTER
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, September, 1924]
There is but little to chronicle concerning the settlement of Grayson county during the two years of 1840 and 1841, except attacks, ...
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Captain Wright, a Gallant Texas Ranger - By J. Will Falvella
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, September, 1924]
When the Republic of Texas ceased to exist in 1846 and Texas became one of the States of the Union, one ...
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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 Loss Valley Fight - Walter M. Robertson of Austin, Texas
Standing, left to right—S. P. Elkins, Tishomingo, Oklahoma; H. E. Conn, Floresviile, Texas; W. W. Lewis, Menard, Texas; J. M. Harkey, San Saba, Texas. Sitting, left to right&...
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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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BRAND BURNING
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, October, 1928]
Kansas City, Mo., August 25, 1928
Mr. J. Marvin Hunter, Bandera, Texas.
Dear Sir :—In your last issue of Frontier Times ...
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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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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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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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Captain June Peak, Texas Ranger
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, September, 1927]
The men who won distinction in the Texas Ranger service were the forerunners of the present era of peace, development ...
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