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The Winchester Quarantine (Panhandle Stockmen's Association)
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1948]
Much has been written and said about the cattle industry in Texas. When the Civil War ended there were thousands ...
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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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TRAGIC STORY OF INDIAN CAPTIVE, MAHALA McDONALD
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1951]
On November 23, 1931, there passed away at her home in Melvin, Texas, a daughter of Texas, whose life span of seventy ...
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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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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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Captain Charles Schreiner, Pioneer
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, November, 1927]
CAPTAIN CHARLES SCHREINER, who died at his home in Kerrville, Texas, February 9, 1927, was one of the outstanding frontier characters of the ...
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Over the Goodnight and Loving Trail - Annie Dyer Nunn
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, November, 1924]
It was a strange funeral procession, that which followed the Goodnight and Loving trail in 1867 from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, ...
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TEXAS PIONEER RECALLS BATTLE WITH INDIANS - Dove Creek Fight
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1932]
CAPTAIN J. P. WYLIE, of Dallas, former Indian fighter, remembers as though it occurred yesterday the disastrous Dove Creek Indian fight ...
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INDIAN TROUBLES IN JACK COUNTY, TX
By Mrs. Harriet Phenix Pharr, Reagan, Texas.
[From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1931]
I CHANCED TO pick up a copy of Frontier Times, and thought I would write ...
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John Robert Baylor—1822-1895
[This account is from Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, September, 1929]
DISTINGUISHED CONFEDERATE officer and Indian fighter, was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, on the twentieth day of July, 1822. His ...
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Thomas Jefferson Rusk
[This account is taken from Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, September, 1929]
THOMAS JEFFERSON RUSK the soldier, jurist, and statesman, was of Irish descent, and born in Pendleton district, South ...
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BOYS FIGHT INDIANS IN LLANO COUNTY
Mary Malisa Haynes, San Antonio, Texas
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, November, 1927]
AS I REMEMBER this was in the year 1866. My parents lived on Pecan Creek, ...
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Colonel Lamartine P. Sieker, Texas Ranger
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, November, 1927]
COLONEL LAMARTINE P. SIEKER was born in Baltimore, Maryland April 8th, 1848, and attended school there in his early childhood. At ...
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James W. Taylor, Texas Ranger
[This brief account of the life of James W. Taylor is found in this issue]
James W. Taylor was born January 20, 1843, at Dallas, Texas, and died May 17, 1917, at Gem City, ...
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FATE OF THE McCOMAS FAMILY - A Letter to the Editor by Martin Christensen
[This Letter to the Editor of Frontier Times Magazine is found in this issue]
Mr. Martin Christensen, of Apache, Oklahoma, is a regular reader of Frontier Times, and, like other ...
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A Drive From Texas to North Dakota - Written for Frontier Times by Samuel Dunn Houston, San Antonio Texas
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1926]
I will write of a trip that I made up the old cow trail to the far Northwest in 1876, just ...
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Herman Lehmann the Indian - J. Marvin Hunter
“A wonderfully interesting book is soon to come from the Hunter press, dealing with the life and captivity of Herman Lehmann, who spent nine years among the Apaches and ...
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AN INDIAN SHOWS HIS GRATITUDE
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, March, 1926]
O. T. Word was raised on Caddo Creek, in Hunt county, and when he grew up to manhood, visited his kinsman, ...
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Interesting Life Story of An Early Texan
Written By Mrs. Mary E. Lesesne, Hennessy, Texas
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, December, 1923]
Colonel John Durst was born in Missouri February 4, 1797. He was raised in Texas ...
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