What a wonderful look at life in the 1800’s. This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Bandera County, Texas and its people.
This is a scanned copy on CD of the original book published in 1922.
Pioneer History
of
Bandera County
Seventy-Five Years of Intrepid History
By Marvin Hunter
Hunter’s Printing House
Bandera, Texas
1922
300 pages on 1 CD
An essential resource for Genealogists
Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect.
This book on CD is SEARCHABLE *
INDEX TO CONTENTS
Our Pioneer Women
Times Have Changed
Bandera Has a Beginning
Bandera Pass
Camp Verde
Bladen Mitchell
Indians Kill Assessor McMurray
Amanda Davis Killed by Indians
Captured an Indian
Richard M. Ware
Life Story of Mrs. Annie E. Brown
Killing of Theodore Kindla
Came to Texas in 1850
The Killing of Berry Buckelew
Dr. Edwin M. Downs
Early Days in Old Bandera
Thomas A. Laxson
Charles de Montel, Sr.
Charles F. Schmidtke
Charles de Montel, Jr.
Mrs. Amelia Schmidtke
The Buck Family
John Kindla Came With Colonists
Tom Click Has a Narrow Escape
Pipe Creek Pioneers
Mrs. Mary Jane Walker
F. M. Hodges
J. A. V. Pue
Murder of Mr. and Mrs. Moore
Lived in a Pole Pen
James Washington Walker
P. H. Mazurek
Experiences of J. P. Heinen, Sr.
H. C Wright
Furnished Telegraph Posts
"Seco'' Smith
Judge Hugh C. Duffy
Daniel Rugh
The Mansfield Family
The Maass Family
Sixty-five Years in Bandera
Attacked by a Panther
Judge George Hay
Emil Huffmeyer
H. H. Carmichael
Judge Edward M. Ross
F. L. Hicks
Drowning of Riggs
Lost a Wagonload of Iron
Old Time Charivaris
The Montague Family
James Franklin Hodges
Early Day Mail Carrying
An Indian Captive
W. S. Hinds. Sr.
David Cryer Killed by Indians
"Fighting Jack" Potter
Mrs. Constantina Adamietz
Leopold Haby
Uncle Jack Stevens
The Bandera Bugle
The Killing of Jack Phillips
Buck Hamilton
Mrs. Mary E. Hudspeth
Grew Up in Bandera County
John Pyka
Henry Stevens, Sr.
Was in Packsaddle Mountain Fight
Settlers in Sabinal Canyon
Jose Poliearpo Rodriguez
Drowning of Joseph Winfield
Thomas Click Killed by Indians
Reminiscences of B. F. Langford, Sr.
Lee Risinger
Bandera's First Baseball Club
A Tragedy of the Civil War
The Bandera Enterprise
Sketch by W. F. Surber
Was Born in Slavery
John H, Ross
Congressman Claud B. Hudspeth
Ben Batto
Judge R. H. Burney
Tribute to Colonel Duffy
Christopher Fagan
Death of J. T. Stevens
The Thalmann Family
Henry Rackow
Andrew Gatluf Jones
Joe Sheppard Wounded
The Mayfield Family
The Buckner Family
Amasa Clark, the Oldest Settler
Gabriel Anderwald
Fulmore's Version of Our County's Name
J. A. Teggert
Scouted in Bandera County
First Commissioners' Court
Rescued Three Captive Children
Judge W. F. Dorow
A. L. Scott
J. F. Tait
The Stanard Family
Ike Stevens, Sr
The Killing of Nicholson
Wolff and Hoffman Killed by Indians
Mrs. M. T. Weldon
"Big Foot" Wallace
Early Day Barbecues in Old Bandera
Great Floods in the Medina Valley
C. H. Frick
Mrs. Mattie Jones
J. A. Miller
In Conclusion