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GILLESPIE COUNTY TRAGEDIES
This series of Frontier Stories was written several years ago by John Warren Hunter, now deceased. One article of the series will appear each month in Frontier Times.
Early ...
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THE MURDER OF MRS LEE AND CHILDREN
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
The Lee family, father, mother, and four children had homesteaded land about 9 miles from Fort Griffin, Texas, on the banks of the Clear Fork of ...
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MASSACRE OF THE KHENEN FAMILY IN MONTAGUE CO, TX
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, May, 1925
Written in 1911 by Judge I. D. Ferguson, Denton, Texas - a witness to the events
In the year 1867 nearly ...
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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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QUANAH PARKER, CHIEF OF THE COMANCHES
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1947
Quanah Parker, who became chief of a branch of the Comanche tribe, was one of the most remarkable Indians that ...
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INDIAN MUSIC
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1947
Indian Music While the music of the American Indian is not, as often suggested, a part of American folklore music, ...
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REMARKABLE LIFE OF TOM SULLIVAN, FORMER SLAVE
By Orn Warder Nolen
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, July, 1954
Tom Sullivan was a negro, and one of the most remarkable characters in Southwest Texas. ...
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THE MASSACRE OF JOHN WEBSTER AND PARTY
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, October, 1923
After Sam Houston’s decisive victory at San Jacinto, many people came to Texas from the older states. ...
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BEATING BACK THE RED WARRIORS
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1947
Several years ago Mr. J. M. Hall - comb of Ozona, Texas, related to me the following ...
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A BANDERA COUNTY TRAGEDY
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1924
During the days of the Civil War, Bandera County was the scene of several tragedies, the most prominent of which ...
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THE STORY OF THE MORGAN MASSACRE
By Marjorie Rogers, Marlin, Texas.
From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, December, 1935
THE MARLIN FAMILY, for whom the town of Marlin was named, and the Morgan family ...
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NINE YEARS WITH THE APACHES AND COMANCHES - Part Three
This is the very moving third part of the story of Apache and Comanche captive, Herman Lehmann. See part one here. See part two here
From J. ...
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NINE YEARS WITH THE APACHES AND COMANCHES - Part One
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, July, 1954
Written by JOHN WARREN HUNTER in 1906
The father and mother of Herman Lehmann came over from Germany with the ...
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NINE YEARS WITH THE APACHES AND COMANCHES - Part Two
This is the thrilling second part of the story of Apache and Comanche captive, Herman Lehmann. See part one here
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, ...
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AN INDIAN BOY EXECUTED IN FREDRICKSBURG IN 1852
From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, May, 1927
“IT WAS the white man's fault," declared Mrs. G. O. Otte, an eyewitness of the Fredericksburg tragedy in 1852, "that there ever was any ...
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AN INDIAN RAID IN MEXICO
George W. Baylor
From Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, September, 1948
In a quiet little Mexican town in the state of Coahuila, Mexico, long, long ago, was enacted one of the ...
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THE FRAZER-MILLER FEUD
From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, November 1944
When Jim B. Miller was hanged by a mob of citizens at Ada, Okla., last summer there ended the career of ...
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AN INDIAN MASSACRE IN MONTAGUE COUNTY
From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, August, 1938
In 1870 there lived two families on the west prong of Denton Creek, in Montague county, Texas, about six miles southwest of the ...
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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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