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BIGFOOT WALLACE STUFFED WITH HICKORY NUTS
By Chas. T. Carlton.
From Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1924
Yesterday, in San Antonio, I was standing on a street corner talking to a man from Mineral Wells. On the other ...
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TERRIBLE EVENTS OF THE SCHNIVELY EXPEDITION RECALLED
By John Warren Hunter
In the fall of 1866 Jacob Schnively, an enthusiast in mine prospecting, and Col. William C. Dalrymple of Williamson County, created a stir of excitement among the ...
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Ben Bickerstaff the Noted Desperado
By T. U. Taylor
Ben Bickerstaff was a fruit of the war. Although he was instinctively a gentleman, high strung, and of pronounced social ideals, his becoming a "bad ...
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Killing of John Vaden at Fort McKavitt
By John Warren Hunter
In 1868 Texas was under military rule and Federal troops were stationed in nearly every town of any consequence in the State. The presence of these soldiers ...
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Recollections of a Texas Cowpuncher
R. M. Stephens, Irving, Texas,
I was very much interested in C. C. Bell's article in The News of May 3. I too, am from Missouri and was ahead of Mr. ...
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George Hay - A Bandera County Pioneer
George Hay was born at Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland, March 17, 1836. With his parents, he sailed for America from Liverpool, England, Sept. 10, 1841. They came across in a sailing vessel, the Tierien, and ...
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Remarkable Story of a Very Old Man - Amasa Clark
Amasa Clark, who in the ruggedness of young manhood penetrated the onetime wilderness where Bandera now stands, is the living proof that fourscore and ten and even more years are ...
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DRAMATIC ACCOUNT OF AN EARLY DAY SHERIFF - Ira. L. Wheat
Ira. L. Wheat, former sheriff of Edwards county, who attended the State Fair of Texas last week, and Henry Putz, 4116 McKinney Avenue, met the other day for the first time ...
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A BANDERA COUNTY MINUTE MAN
First hand account by Tom M. Stevens, Bandera, Texas
I joined Captain Jack Phillips Minute Company at Bandera in 1873, at the time of the organization of that company. We elected ...
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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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SURVIVOR DESCRIBES HORRIBLE MASSACRE
The story of the massacre of the Webster party and the captivity of Mrs. Webster and her children, as told by Virginia Webster, the only survivor of that terrible tragedy, ...
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THE SLAUGHTER OF THE RUSSELL FAMILY
By John Warren Hunter
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 ...
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BREAKING UP THE LAWLESS ELEMENT IN TEXAS - Major W. M. Green, Texas Ex-Rangers' Association
From Hunter’s FRONTIER TIMES Magazine, May, 1924
I first saw the light in January, 1854, near Peach Tree Village, in Tyler county, Texas. My parents moved to Hill county in 1855 ...
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THE BATTLE OF ADOBE WALLS
From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, April, 1947
The battle of Adobe Walls, where twenty-eight straight-shooting plainsmen held five hundred Comanche Indians at bay for five days, and with ...
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La Caramboda, the Female Bandit
THE FOLLOWING story of the Mexican woman brigand, La Caramboda, appeared in the Bandera (Texas) Enterprise, July 10, 1884:
Queretaro, Mexico, June 8, 1884.—La Caramboda, the woman brigand, long a terror to ...
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THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF A TEXAS COWBOY
G. W. Mills
From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, January, 1951
My father and mother were both born in Somerset, State of Kentucky. I first saw the light of ...
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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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REMARKABLE ACCOUNT OF PIONEER LIFE IN TEXAS - J. T. Hazelwood
From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, May, 1947
The following story was given us some twenty-five years ago by J. T. Hazelwood, who was then living at San Angelo. ...
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JIM KETCHUM'S LAST STAND
From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, September, 1947
One of the early settlers of Tom Green county, Texas, was Eugene McCrohan, who located in that region in 1866 and lived ...
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THE LOST CHILD
From J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine, December, 1950
As Texans we cherish no prouder boast than the purity of Texan womanhood and the Patriotism of Texas manhood. These were ...
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