Frontier Times Museum

Hunter learned the trade on the move. Born at Loyal Valley in 1880, he left school in 1891 to work in his father's printshop at the Menardville Record, then on the Mason Herald his father founded in 1892. By 1897 he was on the Llano Times, and that December he started his own Comfort Times, which lasted a few months. In 1899 he joined Two Republics, a bilingual daily in Mexico City; within a year the Mexican government suppressed it and he fled north. He printed papers in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas before settling in Bandera in 1921.

What the plaque says

Frontier Times Museum Built 1933 to house Western collection of J. Marvin Hunter, Sr. (1880-1957), noted historian, journalist, editor and author. Having lived throughout the west, he settled in Bandera as owner of "New Era", 1921-1934. In 1923 he founded "Frontier Times"--a magazine devoted to history, border tragedy, and pioneer achievement. By 1926 he was adding relics to the museum's Western library. He financed construction of museum by sale of his books. Purchased after his death by Mr. and Mrs. F.B. Doane, it is maintained by Doane Foundation. (1965)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Frontier Times Museum — steps away
  A museum built of fossils, petrified wood and cave formations in Bandera, holding a printer-historian's collection of frontier relics and oddities.
• Treue der Union Monument — 19 mi
  An 1866 German-language monument in Comfort over the graves of Hill Country Unionists killed at the Nueces in 1862, its flag of thirty-six stars kept at half-staff.
• Schreiner Mansion — 22 mi
  The 1879 downtown home of Charles Schreiner, the Alsatian-born merchant, banker and rancher whose store and mohair trade built Kerrville.

More markers nearby

• Warren Hunter — steps away
• Mormon Settlers in Bandera County — steps away
• Camp Montel, C.S.A. — steps away
• Old Texas Ranger Trail — steps away