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BLOODY INDIAN RAIDS IN COOKE COUNTY, TX

Published December 9th, 2019 by Frontieradmin

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

Published December 3rd, 2019 by Frontieradmin

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

Published September 13th, 2018 by Unknown

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

Published September 12th, 2018 by Unknown

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

Published September 12th, 2018 by Unknown

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

Published September 3rd, 2018 by Unknown

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)

Published August 28th, 2018 by Unknown

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)

Published August 29th, 2018 by Unknown

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

Published August 13th, 2018 by Unknown

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

Published August 11th, 2018 by Unknown

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

Published August 6th, 2018 by Unknown

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

Published July 26th, 2018 by Unknown

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

Published July 23rd, 2018 by Unknown

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

Published July 22nd, 2018 by Unknown

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

Published July 18th, 2018 by Unknown

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

Published July 12th, 2018 by Unknown

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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SON OF PIONEER MOTHER WITNESSES TERRIFYING SIGHT

Published July 10th, 2018 by Unknown

From J Marvin Hunters Frontier Times Magazine, November, 1949 By Austin Callan.  The war between the States drew most of the manpower out of Southwest Texas and, as a consequence, ...
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THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE XIT RANCH

Published July 3rd, 2018 by Unknown

Mrs. T. V. Reeves THE EARLY and middle nineties saw the last of the great trail herds of Texas following the long road to northern pastures and northern markets.  ...
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BIG TREE'S RAID IN MONTAGUE COUNTY

Published June 27th, 2018 by Unknown

Written in 1911 by W. A. Morris, Montague, Texas.  From Hunters Frontier Times Magazine, October, 1927 I WAS MARRIED December 12, 1867, to Miss Rachel Dennis, and for the first year we lived ...
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CAPTIVE BEAUTY, MISS KING RESCUED IN BLOODY INDIAN FIGHT (LOGAN VAN DEVEER WAS A HERO)

Published June 25th, 2018 by Unknown

From Hunters Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1938 This is the vivid story of Logan Van Deveer, at one time owner of the townsite of the city of Austin, and who rescued ...
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