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A Good Letter From An Old Cowpuncher - Asa Cicero Perry
[The following post is from J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1938 issue.]
I am just an old Texas pioneer, who loves to spin a yarn, like the rest ...
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Irish Pioneers Also Had Their Fights By Henry Yelvington
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, September, 1934]
IT IS DOUBTFUL if St. Patrick could read Spanish, but had he been living in 1830 he would have known that the ...
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A BELOVED PIONEER COUPLE
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, May, 1937]
MARCH 20th, last, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Maverick, Sr., of San Antonio, celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage at the ...
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Frio County History - Mrs. W. A. Roberts
We offer first, an introduction to the author, Mrs. W. A. Roberts, followed by her actual account of very early days in Frio County, TX.
[From J. Marvin Hunter's ...
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Dr. Leonidas Hudspeth, a Frontier Physician By J. Marvin Hunter
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, November, 1935]
EARLY DAY CITIZENS of Bandera county, Texas remember the good physician, Dr. Leonidas Hudspeth, who cared for the health of the ...
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A Stampede on the Ft. Graham Trail - Written for Frontier Times, by D. B. Smith, Bonham, Texas
In the early seventies this scribe went with a neighbor to Salado Mills, down below Belton, with a load of wheat. Shepherd Neff, the brother of Pat M. Neff, was ...
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SPENT FOUR LONG YEARS IN A CAVE
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1925]
Jap Brown, a man by the name of Star, a Mr. Hitchcock, the Pierces and one or two others whose names ...
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Self-Imposed Exiles of Texas - Post 1865 By Laura Ratchford Fromme - Elgin, Texas
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine - October, 1936]
IT IS to be regretted that this we know this band of gallant men, consisting of officers, soldiers, ex-governors, and congressmen, ...
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Bits of Historical Information By J. Marvin Hunter
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1935]
Indians mounted their horses on the right side as contrasted with the white man's custom. They could ride their ...
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Mrs. Fannie Andrews Nixon
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine - March, 1940]
Frances Amanda Andrews, daughter of Eleazer and Mary Hix Andrews, was born in Randolph county, North Carolina, on the Uharie ...
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POLICING THE NAVAJO RESERVATION
[From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1938]
During the past few months I have had some very interesting correspondence with Mr. Fred W Croxen, Chief of the Navajo Indian Police ...
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A REMARKABLE FUNERAL ORATION
[From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, February, 1939]
Some time ago the following article appeared in The Eye-Witness, a weekly newspaper published at Richland Springs, Texas. It is a funeral oration ...
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TEXAS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
By Colonel Acie Sooner
[From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1927]
I CAME to Texas immediately after the close of the Civil War, by rail to New Orleans, and took ...
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IKE T. PRYOR WAS A GREAT CATTLEMAN
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
[From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine - March, 1949}
Colonel Ike T. Pryor, who died in San Antonio in 1937, was one of the outstanding cattlemen and trail ...
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Bill Longley, The Noted Desperado - J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
[From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1950]
William P. Longley was born on Mill Creek, in Austin county, Texas, October 6, 1851. He was the son of Campbell Longley, a good and upright ...
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THE MURDER OF ADELE KAUFMANN IN MASON COUNTY, TX
[From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1950]
"In a lonely spot on East Comanche Creek, six miles north of Mason, Texas, there is a walled-in grave of a young ...
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A PRE-ARRANGED HEAD-ON COLLISION
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
[From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, May, 1950]
WE are wondering just how many of our Frontier Times readers ever heard of Crush City, Texas. I am ...
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REPORT OF THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO - SAMUEL HOUSTON, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
by SAMUEL HOUSTON, Commander-in-Chief
[From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1945]
The Battle of San Jacinto was fought and woii April 21, 1836, just 109 years ago. Many reports have been published of ...
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The Bravery of Mrs. Joseph Taylor
J . Marvin Hunter, Sr.
This is a true story of the bravery of a pioneer mother in early Texas. Not far from the present town of Belton there was a ...
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Some Early Bell County History - L.A. Changer, Ritteen, Texas.
[From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, March, 1928]
THREE YEARS after the organization of Bell county and in the fall of the year 1856, there was a decided movement of the Mormon ...
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