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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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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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A WOMAN’S DARING ESCAPE FROM THE INDIANS
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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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