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THE FRAZER-MILLER FEUD
From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, November 1944
When Jim B. Miller was hanged by a mob of citizens at Ada, Okla., last summer there ended the career of ...
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AN INDIAN MASSACRE IN MONTAGUE COUNTY
From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1938
In 1870 there lived two families on the west prong of Denton Creek, in Montague county, Texas, about six miles southwest of the ...
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THE HORRORS OF INDIAN CAPTIVITY - PART THREE
JOHN HENRY BROWN
(Continued. Read PART TWO here)
Omitting Mrs. Horn's mental tortures on account of her children, she avers that the sufferings of Mrs. Harris were much greater ...
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THE HORRORS OF INDIAN CAPTIVITY - PART TWO
JOHN HENRY BROWN
(Continued. Click here to read part one)
"For some time before her capture Mrs. Harris had been suffering greatly from a rising in her breast, ...
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THE HORRORS OF INDIAN CAPTIVITY - PART ONE
JOHN HENRY BROWN
Before narrating the painful scenes attending the attempt to form a colony of Europeans and Americans on the Rio Grande, about thirty miles above the present town ...
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FIVE CHILDREN CAPTURED BY INDIANS
Here is an echo of the Council House Fight, which took place in San Antonio, Texas, in March, 1840, just one hundred and eleven years ago. The subject of this sketch ...
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THE OATMAN MASSACRE
By J. Marvin Hunter.
From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1944
During the early days many outrages were committed by the Indians upon those emigrating into California, upon what is ...
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BEN DRAKE'S EXCITING LIFE ON THE RANGE
Cora Melton Cross
Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1928
TRAILING cattle to Northern markets had passed from the embryo stage to a profitable business venture between 1866 and 1871—the year Ben Drake ...
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BLOODY TRAGEDY OF LEGION VALLEY
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1924
By John Warren Hunter.
With probably one or two exceptions no county in all the great Trans-Colorado region suffered ...
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INDIAN MASSACRE OF THE BROWN FAMILY
Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, September, 1924
By T. U. Taylor, Dean of Engineering, University of Texas (Nearly all the facts in the following account have been obtained from Joseph Shotwell ...
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THE RUNAWAY SCRAPE
Related by H. Greenwood. Written by Mrs. A. D. Gentry, Ft. Stockton, Texas
From Hunter’s Frontier Times, March, 1927
AT THIS TIME, April, 1836, Santa Anna's army was still in pursuit ...
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MURDER OF MRS. HUNTER AND DAUGHTER
Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, September, 1924
By Josiah Wilbarger
There is but little to chronicle concerning the settlement of Grayson county during the two years of 1840 and 1841, except ...
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BLOODY ATROCITIES IN JACK, YOUNG, PARKER AND PALO PINTO COUNTIES
W. K. Baylor, San Antonio, Texas
From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1926
My inheritance and personal experience have bred in me a keen interest in Texas history, and ...
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THE MYSTERIOUS LEDBETTER BOY
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John C. Jacobs, San Antonio, Texas
From Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1927
IT WAS back in the late sixties, when a line of U. S. Army Posts, stretching across the Frontier ...
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THE CAPTURE OF MRS. WILSON
From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1924
In the spring of 1853 a party of immigrants started from Northeast Texas overland to California. There were ten or twelve men, one ...
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THE TAYLOR-SUTTON FEUD
From Hunter’s Frontier Times, November, 1924
Did you ever hear of Jim Taylor? Not any Jim Taylor, but the Jim Taylor who, although only 18 years of age, was conceded ...
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EYE-WITNESS DESCRIBES HURRICANE-DEVASTATED GALVESTON, 1900
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1948
In the world's great tragedies that of Galveston stands remarkable. In no other case in history has a ...
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1875 - MIGHTY HURRICANE DESTROYS TEXAS PORT CITY
Written by James W. Hatch, San Antonio, Texas
From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, October, 1925
In September, 1875, district court was being held at Indianola, the county seat of Calhoun ...
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Z. N. MORRELL - TEXAS PIONEER PREACHER
Frontier Times Magazine, March, 1932
By Marjorie Rogers, Marlin, Texas
PREACHING THE gospel in the wilds of Texas in 1835 was a hazardous undertaking, and it took a real he-man to act ...
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WHITE MEN ATE NIGGER MEAT
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, May, 1949
Austin Callan, well known Texas writer, recently contributed the following article to the San Angelo Standard, ...
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