J Marvin Hunter's

FRONTIER TIMES

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Joseph Young Latham, Early Day School Teacher - Miss Rina Latham

Published July 21st, 2014 by Unknown

[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, December, 1949] Joseph Young Latham, (familiarly known as Dode Latham), was born in Blanco county, Texas, February 22, 1865, on Spring Creek, near the junction ...
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In the Land or the Chisholms - By T. U. Taylor, Austin, Texas

Published July 20th, 2014 by Unknown

[This story is found here:] After the dedication of the Jesse Chisholm Hall at Bandera on May 28, 1938, two old time frontiersmen, Dave Dillingham and T. U. Taylor, made plans for ...
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An Old Time Texan Tells His Story

Published July 2nd, 2014 by Unknown

Written - by J. T. Wood, Parksdale, Texas From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1929] I was raised on the frontier of Texas, and know all about the ...
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Brief History of the Early Days in Mason County - By J. Marvin Hunter

Published June 29th, 2014 by Unknown

[This fascinating and tragic account of the earliest German immigrants to Texas, history of Ft. Mason, cattle trails and drovers, Indian atrocities, is from J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times ...
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Helped to Organize Kimble County - Mrs. A. T. Whetstone, Noxville, Texas

Published June 24th, 2014 by Unknown

[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, September, 1930] EVER AND ANON the funeral train takes up its solemn march to the city of the dead, and among its passengers ...
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A Good Letter From An Old Cowpuncher - Asa Cicero Perry

Published June 9th, 2014 by Unknown

[The following post is from J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1938 issue.] I am just an old Texas pioneer, who loves to spin a yarn, like the rest ...
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Irish Pioneers Also Had Their Fights By Henry Yelvington

Published June 9th, 2014 by Unknown

[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, September, 1934] IT IS DOUBTFUL if St. Patrick could read Spanish, but had he been living in 1830 he would have known that the ...
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A BELOVED PIONEER COUPLE

Published June 3rd, 2014 by Unknown

[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, May, 1937] MARCH 20th, last, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Maverick, Sr., of San Antonio, celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage at the ...
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Dr. Leonidas Hudspeth, a Frontier Physician By J. Marvin Hunter

Published June 1st, 2014 by Unknown

[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, November, 1935] EARLY DAY CITIZENS of Bandera county, Texas remember the good physician, Dr. Leonidas Hudspeth, who cared for the health of the ...
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Self-Imposed Exiles of Texas - Post 1865 By Laura Ratchford Fromme - Elgin, Texas

Published May 27th, 2014 by Unknown

[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine - October, 1936] IT IS to be regretted that this we know this band of gallant men, consisting of officers, soldiers, ex-governors, and congressmen, ...
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Bits of Historical Information By J. Marvin Hunter

Published May 26th, 2014 by Unknown

[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1935]   Indians mounted their horses on the right side as contrasted with the white man's custom. They could ride their ...
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Mrs. Fannie Andrews Nixon

Published May 23rd, 2014 by Unknown

[From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine - March, 1940] Frances Amanda Andrews, daughter of Eleazer and Mary Hix Andrews, was born in Randolph county, North Carolina, on the Uharie ...
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A REMARKABLE FUNERAL ORATION

Published May 8th, 2014 by Unknown

[From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, February, 1939] Some time ago the following article appeared in The Eye-Witness, a weekly newspaper published at Richland Springs, Texas. It is a funeral oration ...
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THE MURDER OF ADELE KAUFMANN IN MASON COUNTY, TX

Published April 29th, 2014 by Unknown

[From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1950] "In a lonely spot on East Comanche Creek, six miles north of Mason, Texas, there is a walled-in grave of a young ...
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The Bravery of Mrs. Joseph Taylor

Published April 19th, 2014 by Unknown

J . Marvin Hunter, Sr. This is a true story of the bravery of a pioneer mother in early Texas. Not far from the present town of Belton there was a ...
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Bloody Times in Blanco County

Published April 15th, 2014 by Unknown

[From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1929] J. C. Goar, Johnson City, Texas. I HAVE NOT SEEN much Blanco county early history in Frontier Times, so I will write a ...
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Tom Caraway—Pioneer - By Mary E. Kelley, Beaumont, Texas

Published April 14th, 2014 by Unknown

Tom Caraway—Pioneer By Mary E. Kelley, Beaumont, Texas [From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1934] ADVENTURE LIKE a theme song, runs through the story of Tom Caraway 's life. Sitting ...
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1884 - BOY MAKES LONE TRIP - J. W. Caruthers

Published March 25th, 2014 by Unknown

By J. W. Caruthers, San Antonio, Texas. [from Frontier Times Magazine, March, 1935] Fifty years ago last August, in 1884, I was working on the Matador Ranch in Motley county. I went ...
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A BAKERY OF PIONEER DAYS

Published March 23rd, 2014 by Unknown

Fascinating history of Fredericksburg and of a very special pioneer bakery. From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, March, 1934 By Esther Mueller, Fredericksburg, Texas THE BROAD MAIN street of Fredericksburg, which ...
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