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BEN DRAGOO TELLS OF THE CAPTURE OF CYNTHIA ANN PARKER
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, December, 1923]
The Indians were more troublesome in the fall of '59 than ever before; their raids were more numerous and covered a broader ...
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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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MAJOR W. M. GREEN DEAD
[This obituary was printed in J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, Feb., 1931]
Major W. M . Green, commanding the Texas Ex-Rangers Association, died December 23, 1930, at his home in Colorado, ...
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CAPTAIN ARRINGTON'S EXPEDITION
[This amazing account of survival is from this issue]
By J. Marvin Hunter
Captain G. W. Arrington was a noted Texas Ranger, and for a long time was captain of ...
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In the Land or the Chisholms - By T. U. Taylor, Austin, Texas
[This story is found here:]
After the dedication of the Jesse Chisholm Hall at Bandera on May 28, 1938, two old time frontiersmen, Dave Dillingham and T. U. Taylor, made plans for ...
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A Builder of Texas, Ferdinand Toepperwein - By J. M. Woods, San Antonio, Texas
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, May, 1939]
There hangs upon the walls of the Lodge room of Kendall Masonic Lodge No. 897, at Boerne, Texas, most interesting Masonic mementos ...
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TRAIL DRIVER HAS PERILOUS JOURNEY - Samuel Dunn Houston
FRONTIER TIMES headquarters appreciated a visit a short time ago from Samuel Dunn Houston, one of those old time Texas cowboys, who made several trips "up the trail" ...
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A. H. POLLEY TELLS HOW HE TURNED THE WESTERN TRAIL
By Cora Melton Cross
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1929]
A. H. POLLEY, known the cattle world over as Hub Polley of Austin, Texas, talks as unconcernedly ...
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MURDER OF MR. AND MRS. RIGGS AND MR. PIERCE
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, September, 1927]
VETERAN B. F. GHOLSON, who now resides at Evant, Texas, has kindly furnished the following account of the murder of Mr. ...
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Doan's Store on Red River
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, October, 1927]
All old trail drivers remember the Red River Crossing at Doan's Store. Above is shown a picture taken in the ...
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An Old Time Texan Tells His Story
Written - by J. T. Wood, Parksdale, Texas
From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1929]
I was raised on the frontier of Texas, and know all about the ...
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TELLS ABOUT TRAILING CATTLE, STAMPEDES AND INDIANS
By Cora Melton Cross
[This account is from J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, November, 1928]
Having come to her own, Texas in the late 1840s was a veritable panorama ...
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Brief History of the Early Days in Mason County - By J. Marvin Hunter
[This fascinating and tragic account of the earliest German immigrants to Texas, history of Ft. Mason, cattle trails and drovers, Indian atrocities, is from J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times ...
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BRUTAL SLAUGHTER OF PIONEER COUPLE
By Leonard Passmore
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, May, 1924]
It is a well conceded fact that Texas has never had a better class of immigrants than the ...
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Well Known Trail Driver Dead
[Obituary from J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, July, 1927]
John Albert Miller, aged 75, died at his home near Bandera, Texas, May 22, after a brief illness. Mr. Miller was a well ...
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Kimble Co. History Tells of Pioneer Struggles - By Coke R. Stevenson, Jr.
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, September, 1930]
THE TERRITORY embraced in Kimble County, was formerly a part of Bexar County. Several volumes of the county records were transcribed from ...
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Helped to Organize Kimble County - Mrs. A. T. Whetstone, Noxville, Texas
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, September, 1930]
EVER AND ANON the funeral train takes up its solemn march to the city of the dead, and among its passengers ...
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Tribute to Jesse Chisholm - T. U. Taylor, Austin, Texas
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, July, 1939]
Jesse Chisholm died at Left Hand Springs on March 4, 1868, five miles east of Greenfield, Oklahoma. He had been in the northern part ...
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Louis Schmidt of Mason County, Texas - J. Marvin Hunter
From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, February, 1929]
In 1872 a sixteen-year-old lad by the name of Louis Schmidt drifted into Mason. He boarded with the sheriff, acted as jailor ...
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The Story of the Old French Colony
By Louise Boyer, in Texas History Teachers' Bulletin, October 22, 1924
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, October, 1935]
WHILE THE PRINCIPAL events connected with the early colonization and settlement of ...
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