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"The Remarkable Life Story of Quanah Parker
"The Remarkable Life Story of Quanah Parker"
Quanah Parker, the celebrated Comanche chief, passed away suddenly at his home on the Comanche reservation, located four miles west of ...
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Taming the Savage Apache Followers of Geronimo .
The Apache way of life has undergone a profound change. Once fierce warriors, they have embraced a path of peace and civilization. Gone are the traditional blankets and moccasins, replaced ...
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The Trail of Blood Along the Texas Border
The Trail of Blood Along the Texas Border
Fredericksburg
This series of Frontier Stories was written several years ago by John Warren Hunter, now deceased. One article of the series ...
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Jack Hays, the Famous Texas Ranger
Jack Hays, the Famous Texas Ranger
From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, October, 1923
In the annals of the Republic of Texas, few figures shine as brightly as Captain Jack Hays. ...
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BLOODY INDIAN RAIDS IN COOKE COUNTY, TX
W. S. Adair
Mrs. Sarah Witt McCutcheon, who makes her home with her son, W. R. Sheegog, 6120 Gaston avenue, Dallas, now in her eightieth year, recollects clearly some of the ...
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CAPTIVITY OF THE SIMPSON CHILDREN
From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, Vol 18 No. 05 - February 1941
Among the residents of Austin in the days of its partial abandonment, from the spring of 1842 ...
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INDIAN ATROCITIES IN PARKER COUNTY
From Hunter’s Frontier times Magazine, August, 1944
Hon. G. A. Holland
In July, 1862, Hiram Wilson and his brother-in-law, Mr. Fulton, were preparing to make sorghum. They sent William Wilson, 12, ...
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OX WAGONS, INDIANS, AND WINCHESTERS
From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1934
By Muster Neora KeelI
IN THE YEAR 1850 my grandparents with my mother and her two brothers crossed the plains from Missouri ...
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HARROWING EXPERIENCE OF MRS. KIRBY
From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, July, 1927
Indians in 1871 killed the husband and two children of Mrs. E. K. Kirby, 76-year-old-resident, living with her daughter 20 miles north of Uvalde. ...
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CHIEF SATANTA'S ELOQUENT SPEECH / MASSACRE OF HENRY WARREN'S TRAIN
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, May, 1938
At a peace council held in October, 1867, on the Arkansas river, in the present state of Oklahoma, between United States ...
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THREE MONTHS AMONG THE INDIANS (Part 1 of 2)
Written by Ole T. Nystel, of Meridian, Texas
THE author of this work, Ole Tergerson Nystel, was born in Henderson county, Texas January 4. 1853. My parents immigrated from Norway, Europe, to ...
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THREE MONTHS AMONG THE INDIANS (Part 2 of 2)
Written by Ole T. Nystel, of Meridian, Texas
Part 2 of 2
Attempt To Escape.
On the following afternoon I was set to digging roots for food. One Indian stood near ...
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MISS ANN WHITNEY, THE FRONTIER HEROINE
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, July, 1927
THE SCHOOL children of Hamilton county have marked the last resting place of Ann Whitney, frontier school teacher, who was ...
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AN INDIAN’S SPEECH
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, July, 1927
Justice C. H. Crownhart
(Red Jacket was chief of the Wolf clan, Seneca nation based in western New York).
The ...
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THE SUBLIME COURAGE OF A FRONTIER BOY
John Warren Hunter, in 1910
FROM Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1948
Captain Cal Putman came to Texas in 1821, and with his family settled on the San Gabriel, in ...
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BRUTE COURAGE AND ENDURANCE OF THE INDIAN
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1937
A GREAT DEAL has been said, about the endurance of the Indian and the desperate manner in which a redskin ...
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INDIAN RAID IN DUVAL AND NUECES COUNTIES
From J. Marvin Hunters Frontier Times Magazine, March, 1937
(EDITOR 'S NOTE—The following account of a Mexican and Indian raid on the Texas border, is taken from a photostat ...
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THE CARANKAWA INDIANS
From J. Marvin Hunters Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1948
J. H. Kuykendall
Both history and tradition preserves the names of several tribes of Indians, which had become extinct, or blended with ...
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HARDSHIPS OF A GERMAN FAMILY
By Bernard Manken, Boerne, Texas
A JOURNEY from Galveston to New Braunfels today is considered a pleasure trip. At night you enter a comfortable Pullman; next morning you enjoy ...
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THE KILLING OF THE INDIAN CHIEF, IRON JACKET
W. D. Mathews, of Coleman County, Texas
(The experiences of W.D. Mathews, of Coleman County, Texas, were written by Captain H. A. Morse in the following article, which was ...
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