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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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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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A WOMAN’S DARING ESCAPE FROM THE INDIANS

Published May 22nd, 2018 by Unknown

From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1925 Among the early settlers in Western Texas in 1867 was a man by the name of Rabb. He was one of ...
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THE HORRORS OF INDIAN CAPTIVITY - PART THREE

Published February 1st, 2018 by Unknown

JOHN HENRY BROWN (Continued.  Read PART TWO here) Omitting Mrs. Horn's mental tortures on account of her children, she avers that the sufferings of Mrs. Harris were much greater ...
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THE HORRORS OF INDIAN CAPTIVITY - PART TWO

Published January 30th, 2018 by Unknown

JOHN HENRY BROWN (Continued.  Click here to read part one) "For some time before her capture Mrs. Harris had been suffering greatly from a rising in her breast, ...
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THE HORRORS OF INDIAN CAPTIVITY - PART ONE

Published January 29th, 2018 by Unknown

JOHN HENRY BROWN Before narrating the painful scenes attending the attempt to form a colony of Europeans and Americans on the Rio Grande, about thirty miles above the present town ...
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THE CAPTURE OF MRS. WILSON

Published September 7th, 2017 by Unknown

From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1924 In the spring of 1853 a party of immigrants started from Northeast Texas overland to California. There were ten or twelve men, one ...
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WHITE SQUAW OF THE COMANCHES - TRAGIC TALE OF CYNTHIA ANN PARKER

Published July 26th, 2017 by Unknown

By J. Marvin Hunter From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, March, 1927 MORE than 90 years, 91 next May to be exact, have gone by since Cynthia Ann Parker was ...
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WHITE BOY BECOMES AN INDIAN

Published February 19th, 2016 by Unknown

Narrative by Charles Morris, of Kerrville, Texas A family by the name of Fischer lived just below the Morris Ranch in Gillespie county in the early days, and in about 1868 ...
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TERRIFYING CAPTURE OF MRS. LUSTER

Published January 15th, 2016 by Unknown

By J. Marvin Hunter From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1941 The heroism and bravery of the women on the Texas frontier has never been equalled by any ...
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DOT BABB, INDIAN CAPTIVE PASSES ON

Published March 30th, 2014 by Unknown

[This fascinating and tragic account is from Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, November, 1936] ON AUGUST 10, 1936, there passed away at his home in Amarillo, Texas, Theodore Adolphus Babb, better known to ...
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