A. J. Sowell, Ranger and Author
By J. Marvin Hunter.
Account of Andrew Jackson Sowell,
who was in his youthful days a Texas
Ranger, and later became the author
of several outstanding books on
Texas history. Hundreds of the old
time citizens of the Hill Country
knew him well, and all highly praised
him as a man of high ideals and
lofty courage.
Mentions: Asa J. L. Sowell and
Mary Mildred Turner Sowell * Big
Sandy Creek * the Keep Ranch in
Wise county * Montague * Edward
H. Cobb * chief Sittanke * Dan Woodruff
* Sergt. Joel R. Payne * Foyle's
Creek * the Keenon ranch *
Indian Fight In Coleman County
Related by J. M. Holcomb, Ozona,
Texas, in 1911.
First-hand account of an Indian
fight which took place in Coleman
county, Texas, in 1868 in which
the author was a participant and
survivor.
Mentions: Flat Top on Elm Creek
in Coleman county * Rich Coffey
* the Guest brothers * the Beddo
brothers * the Wiley brothers *
Dick Robinson, Sug Robinson * Pink
Robinson * Jim Hisaw and Bob Hisaw
* with N. T. and W. M. Guest * Flat
Top ranch * Bill Guest and Burrel
Brown * Bill Guest and Bart Guest
* Home Creek * Ans. Waldrip, Bill
McCollum * John W. Coffey, John
W. Ferguson * Ike Fridge *
Frontier Times Is 20 Years Old
Mentions: Col. Frank P. Holland
* Perry Kallison * Kallison's Big
Country Store in San Antonio *
Reid's Tramp
A Ten Months' Trip Through Texas,
New Mexico, Arizona, California
and Mexico in 1857
By John C. Reid
(EDITOR'S NOTE.-This is one of
the most remarkable and interesting
stories of Western travel ever written.
The book was published in 1858,
and we are printing it in Frontier
Times as a serial, but not in full
because of space, omitting many
of the incidents of lesser importance.
It will run in this magazine six
or seven months, and those who read
every installment will gain a knowledge
of much hitherto unpublished history.
Coming first hand as it does from
a man who participated in some of
the historical incidents mentioned,
it is authentic and reliable. Remember,
it was written in 1857.)
(Continued from Last Month.)
Mentions: Caborca * Aribaea *
Major Wood * Tubetama * Pitakeet
* General Crabb * Captain Owray
* Governor Peschiero * General Agelar
* Morano * Mr. Bates * V. V. Ward
* William Dodson and William Rhodes
* Tubas * Mr. William Burk * Charles
B. Smith * Charles Edward Evans
* Mr. N. B. Wood, and Mr. David
S. McDowell * John George Clark
* William Cheney * Mr. Hines * Mr.
Cortlezon * Gabilondo *
The Battle On The Nueces River
As Seen and Reported by Captain
John W. Sansom
Eye-witness account of the Union
forces engaged in the battle with
Confederate forces on the Nueces
river, August 10, 1862.
Mentions: Union Loyal League,
which had in 1861 been organized
in the country north and west of
San Antonio * E. Kramer * Hugo Degener
* Henry Hartman * Phil C. Temple
* Jacob Kuechler * Valentine Homan
* Major Tegener * Col. James M.
Duff * Major Wenner * a man by the
name of Burgeman * Howard Henderson
and William Hester * Tom Scott *
Mr. Leopold Bauer * Ernest Bosler
* Captain Cramer * Lieut. Simon
* Hugo Degener, Helmer Degener,
A. Bruns, and Pablo Diaz * Hester
Scott * Henderson Scott * Henry
Schwethelm * Jacob Eusenberger *
A. Graf * Lieutenant C. D. McRae
* Captain Donnelson * Hon. Edward
Degener * L. Bauer, A. Bruns, E.
Vater, Wm. Tellgmann, C. Schaefer,
J. Behrens, A. Vater, Hugo Degener,
L. Scherholz, M Weirich. Ernest
Besler, Hilmar Degener, E. Schreiner,
J. CI. Kallenberg, H. Mayerhauser,
L. Boerner * H. Markwart, H. Steves
* W. Boerner, F. Tays, H. Steiler,
R. Bronkish, A. Luckenbach, C. Berk,
L. Riessaman, H. Flick, A. Reibsamen
* Captain Hornsley * Jas. Elstner,
Moritz Weiss, E. Felsing, H. Hermann,
F. Weiss, V. Hoshmann * Captain
John W. Sansom, Sergeant Howard
Henderson, Corporal Wm. Hester,
Corporal Tom Scott, F. Graff, A.
Graff, W. B. Scott, Captain Henry
Schwethelm, Wm. Voter. *
A Woman In A Ranger Camp
By J. Marvin Hunter.
Account of Mrs. Luvenia Conway
Roberts, pioneer widow of Texas
Ranger Captain Dan W. Roberts. Immediately
after her marriage to Captain Roberts
in 1875, she went, as a bride, to
a Texas Ranger camp on the San Saba
river, near Menard, and she spent
six thrilling happy years in camp
with her husband and his gallant
Rangers.
Mentions: Miss Lou Conway * the
Rev. Mr. Archer * Mrs. L. F. Walker
* the old Nimitz Hotel at Fredericksburg
* Major H. M. Holmes * Scott Cooley
* Mason County War * Mr Hester *
Mrs. Gooch * Mr. Haack * An Englishman,
named Carlton * Junction City *
The Massacre In Elm Pass
By J. Marvin Hunter.
Some nine or ten miles a little
east of north of the town of Bandera
is Elm Pass, on the old Bandera
and Center Point road. Though not
as noted as Bandera Pass, about
four miles to the west, Elm Pass
was used as a route by marauding
Indians when raiding the Guadalupe
river settlements of Comfort and
Center Point, and then coming over
into the Medina river valley. Several
distressing incidents and tragedies
have taken place in Elm Pass, one
of which is the subject of this
account. It is the tragic story
of the massacre of a party of Mexicans,
by Indians, which took place in
the year of 1847 and is related
by Theodor Mazurek, a former citizen
of Bandera.
Further Mentions: Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Mazurek * Don Antonio Lopez
* Pedro Lopez, Francisco Barrera
* Polley's Peak * Privilege Creek
* Policarpo Rodriguez *
PIONEER MOTHER DIED.
Mentions: Mrs. Mary Faris White
a resident of Llano county * Mr.
and Mrs. Jameson Faris * Brady *
Mrs. J. R. Rhodes of Ponca City
* J. E. White of Pear Valley * R.
W. White of Mason * O. L. White
of Dixon * Mrs. M. A. Dees *
ROBERT PAUL McNUTT.
"Robert Paul McNutt was born
in Knoxville, Tennessee, June 10,
1845, and died in Hutchinson county,
Texas, September 16, 1941. Coming
to Texas in his early twenties,
he soon joined the Texas Rangers
under Captain June Peak, and served
some ten years, taking part in all
the campaigns of that well known
company. On retirement he settled
in Dallas county, and married a
young widow by the name of Wells,
by whom he had two sons, Roy and
Kenneth McNutt. In 1901 he …"
