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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 to ...
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HARROWING EXPERIENCE OF MRS. KIRBY np
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. Although ...
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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 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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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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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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PIONEER MOTHER'S SON WITNESSES TERRIFYING SIGHT
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
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
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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LOGAN VAN DEVEER WAS A HERO
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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GILLESPIE COUNTY TRAGEDIES
This series of Frontier Stories was written several years ago by John Warren Hunter, now deceased. One article of the series will appear each month in Frontier Times.
Early ...
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THE MURDER OF MRS LEE AND CHILDREN
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
The Lee family, father, mother, and four children had homesteaded land about 9 miles from Fort Griffin, Texas, on the banks of the Clear Fork of ...
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