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SOME LOST TRIBES OF TEXAS
Mrs. Julia Jones, Houston, Texas
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, June, 1941
Recently, there has appeared a most interesting work by Dr. John R. Swan, ton, ethnologist of ...
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JOSIAH WILBARGER SCALPED BY INDIANS
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, March, 1924
In the spring of 1830, Stephen F. Austin came to his new colony, located on the upper Colorado, with two surveyors ...
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BLOODY KATE BENDER OF KANSAS
By Roscoe Logue
J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, March, 1944
In the spring of 1871 the Bender family moved to the southeastern portion of Kansas and homesteaded. In the ...
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WHEN MEN BECOME BEASTS - Brutal Lynching, Paris TX, 1893
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1934
THERE ARE TIMES when the frenzied mob knows no law when men's reason seems to be thrown to the ...
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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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A TRAGIC EXPEDITION
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, May, 1929
This Narrative of Fremont's Retreat From the San Luis Valley is Given as told by Thos. E. Breckenridge, a ...
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Mrs. Holmsley Went Up the Chisholm Trail.
D. K. Doyle
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, July, 1927
Going up the Chisholm Trail with the cowboys and herds of cattle in the seventies.
Traversing the extensive, ...
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Adventures on the Cattle Trail
A. Collett Sanders, Littlefield, Texas,
I will give a short sketch of my life as trail boss from the '70's up to the end of the trail driving from Texas ...
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Riding the Ranges in the Seventies
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, July, 1924.
Riding the ranges and following the trails in the days when the Texas longhorns were driven "north of 36" ...
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RIDING THE RANGES IN THE 1870's
From J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, July, 1924.
Riding the ranges and following the trails in the days when the Texas longhorns were driven "north of 36" ...
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Ab Blocker Tells About Trail Driving Days
From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, October, 1927
A MAN of the great outdoors, Ab Blocker; sun-browned his face, and written in with evidences of human contact in the wide ...
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SWIMMING CATTLE ACROSS THE CANADIAN
From Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1941
By Ira Aten
In 1898 there were three divisions of the XIT ranch lying south of the Canadian River—the Escarbada No. 5, Spring Lake No. 6, and ...
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Sam Bass Song
Frontier Times has received a number of requests from subscribers, asking for the song, "Sam Bass." Recently we found this song in the Dallas Semi-Weekly Farm News. It Is believed ...
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A Train Robbery Prevented
From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, May, 1926
When President Wilson summoned to Washington Duval West of San Antonio to confer on the delicate situation in Mexico, preparatory to sending ...
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MY EXPERIENCE ON THE RANGE AND ON THE TRAIL
Written by A. Huffmeyer, San Antonio.
From Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1924
The subject of this article was born in Kendall County, Texas, on a farm on the Guadalupe River, November 25, 1855. ...
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AN OLD TRAIL DRIVER TALKS ABOUT EARLY DAYS
By Cora Melton Cross
Wm. Simpson has been a resident of one county in Texas for forty-seven years and according to his idea, "there's no better place on ...
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Attempted Train Robbery at Coleman, June, 1898
Written by J. Marvin Hunter
It was in June, 1898, that an attempt was made by four bandits to rob the express car on the Santa Fe railroad, running from Brownwood ...
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A TRYING TRIP ALONE THROUGH THE WILDERNESS
By Samuel Dunn Houston, San Antonio, Texas
From FRONTIER TIMES Magazine, March, 1924
In 1879 I went from Southern Texas with a big herd of cattle to the northern market, Ogallala, Nebraska. ...
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TELLS OF TERRIBLE STAMPEDE
From Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, December, 1934
DID YOU EVER see a herd of cattle that were stampeding!. If not, no pen can truly picture to you the danger ...
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TRAIL HERD TRIBULATIONS
From Hunter’s Frontier Times, May, 1948
The trail driving period began in 1866 and continued until about 1886. During the twenty years following the opening of a cattle market at Abilene, ...
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