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