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Dan Budd, a Texas Cowboy - Cora Melton Cross
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1928]
"They're building towns and railroads now, where we used to bed ow' cows.And men with mule ...
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Rode for the Purple Mask
Written for Frontier Times by Marjorie Rogers, Marlin, Texas
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1928]
“THE FIRST TIME that I ever saw Billy the Kid was in ...
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Trail Historian Corrects Errors
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1932]
THE FAMED Chisholm cattle trail, about which more has been written than any other southwestern trail cannot be traced in Texas for ...
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BRAND BURNING
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, October, 1928]
Kansas City, Mo., August 25, 1928
Mr. J. Marvin Hunter, Bandera, Texas.
Dear Sir :—In your last issue of Frontier Times ...
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The Winchester Quarantine (Panhandle Stockmen's Association)
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1948]
Much has been written and said about the cattle industry in Texas. When the Civil War ended there were thousands ...
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Over the Goodnight and Loving Trail - Annie Dyer Nunn
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, November, 1924]
It was a strange funeral procession, that which followed the Goodnight and Loving trail in 1867 from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, ...
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A Drive From Texas to North Dakota - Written for Frontier Times by Samuel Dunn Houston, San Antonio Texas
[From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1926]
I will write of a trip that I made up the old cow trail to the far Northwest in 1876, just ...
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TRAIL DRIVER HAS PERILOUS JOURNEY - Samuel Dunn Houston
FRONTIER TIMES headquarters appreciated a visit a short time ago from Samuel Dunn Houston, one of those old time Texas cowboys, who made several trips "up the trail" ...
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A. H. POLLEY TELLS HOW HE TURNED THE WESTERN TRAIL
By Cora Melton Cross
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1929]
A. H. POLLEY, known the cattle world over as Hub Polley of Austin, Texas, talks as unconcernedly ...
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Doan's Store on Red River
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, October, 1927]
All old trail drivers remember the Red River Crossing at Doan's Store. Above is shown a picture taken in the ...
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TELLS ABOUT TRAILING CATTLE, STAMPEDES AND INDIANS
By Cora Melton Cross
[This account is from J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, November, 1928]
Having come to her own, Texas in the late 1840s was a veritable panorama ...
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Well Known Trail Driver Dead
[Obituary from J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, July, 1927]
John Albert Miller, aged 75, died at his home near Bandera, Texas, May 22, after a brief illness. Mr. Miller was a well ...
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Tribute to Jesse Chisholm - T. U. Taylor, Austin, Texas
[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, July, 1939]
Jesse Chisholm died at Left Hand Springs on March 4, 1868, five miles east of Greenfield, Oklahoma. He had been in the northern part ...
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A Stampede on the Ft. Graham Trail - Written for Frontier Times, by D. B. Smith, Bonham, Texas
In the early seventies this scribe went with a neighbor to Salado Mills, down below Belton, with a load of wheat. Shepherd Neff, the brother of Pat M. Neff, was ...
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IKE T. PRYOR WAS A GREAT CATTLEMAN
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
[From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine - March, 1949}
Colonel Ike T. Pryor, who died in San Antonio in 1937, was one of the outstanding cattlemen and trail ...
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