Inside the Frontier Times Museum, Bandera, Texas.
A look at the weird frontier artifacts in the Frontier Times Museum in Bandera, Texas.
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What do a two-headed goat, a stuffed mountain lion and a ventriloquist doll named Gino R Tree have in common? They’re part of the weird and wonderful collection of artifacts at the Frontier Times Museum in Bandera. If you find yourself tripping through the Texas Hill Country with an appetite for the abnormal, this is a must stop.
Exploring Texas Hill Country | RV Road Trip
Texas Hill country is a bucolic, rumpled terrain marked by wooded canyons cut by spring-fed rivers. It's also laced with endless miles of appealing two-lane blacktop—and, best of all, it's quirky. One minute you'll see a vista of bluebonnets and the next a sign advertising Emu Oil, Next Exit or Cowboys for Christ Silent Auction.
The Hill Country begins just north of Austin, continues south to San Antonio, and sweeps west some 200 miles (322 kilometers) before the land begins to flatten out. Follow a route linking state and U.S. secondary highways, which lead to a series of colorful towns fit for dawdling.
These attractions form a loop starting in San Antonio and taking in Bandera, Kerrville, Fredericksburg, Enchanted Rock, Johnson City, and New Braunfels, before returning to San Antonio.
From San Antonio, follow Highway 16 northwest to Bandera, which considers itself the hell-raising Cowboy Capital of the World. Here you can order a chicken-fried steak bigger than your haid and dance to live country music. But nowadays you're apt to see travelers' SUVs parked in front of Arkey Blue's Silver Dollar saloon alongside the usual beat-up pickup trucks. The Frontier Times Museum in Bandera (510 13th St.; tel. 1 830 796 3864; frontiermuseum.org) has a bewildering collection of prehistoric arrowheads, mounted animals, bells, and a shrunken human head no bigger than an orange. Duck into the gift shop, which stocks those must-have rubber tomahawks. Also in Bandera is the Old Spanish Trail Restaurant (305 Main St.; tel. 1 830 796 3836), famous for its home-cooked pot roast, catfish platter, and chicken-fried steak.
Next stop is Kerrville, which you can reach by looping around on Highway 16 or cutting straight to it on 173. Stop for a meal at Billy Gene's Restaurant (1489 Junction Hwy.; tel. 1 830 895 7377; billygenesrestaurant), known for its chicken-fried steak and its views of the Guadalupe River. Then check in at the Inn of the Hills (1001 Junction Hwy.; tel. 1 830 895 5000; innofthehills.com), with such amenities as live country music and an Olympic-size pool. Next door is a family sports center with a 16-lane bowling alley, so pack your finest bowling shirts.
Among the first non-natives to settle the area were German immigrants who'd purchased millions of acres sight unseen. Old-timers still refer to the German Hill Country, where the mother tongue was commonly spoken until the 1970s. One town that clings to its German heritage is Fredericksburg. Besides its more than 300 B&Bs, it has a Main Street lined with galleries, boutiques, bistros, and specialty shops with names like Der Küchen Laden.
Follow the oompah music to the Ausländer Biergarten (323 E. Main St.; tel. 1 830 997 7714) featuring German cuisine and an astounding selection of beers. Order a frosty mug of Paulaner Salvator and feast on kasseler rippchen—smoked pork chops—with hot German potato salad, sauerkraut, and a slice of Black Forest chocolate cake for dessert.
Fredericksburg native son Chester Nimitz served as commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet during World War II. Honoring his memory are the Admiral Nimitz Museum and the National Museum of the Pacific War (340 E. Main St.; tel. 1 830 997 4379; nimitz-museum.org), displaying over a thousand artifacts, including a Japanese midget submarine captured during the Pearl Harbor attack.
Detour 18 miles (29 kilometers) north of Fredericksburg to Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, whose centerpiece is a 425-foot (130-meter)-tall dome-shaped mountain of pink granite about a billion years old. Hike to the top, then overnight in pleasant campgrounds at the base (tel. 1 830 685 3636; tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/enchanted_rock).
A few miles away in Johnson City, the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park Visitor Center (Ave. G and Ladybird Ln.; 1 830 868 7128; nps.gov/lyjo) offers a self-paced stroll past video monitors with footage of the War on Poverty, Vietnam, and other events of Johnson's life. Most surprising is a retirement photo of him with long hair, looking a little like Timothy Leary without the beads.
Cap off your drive with an inner tube trip down the Comal or Guadalupe Rivers, both of which run through New Braunfels, making it a haven for paddlers and floaters. On either stream, the warm sunshine filtering through the oaks and cypresses overhead creates a soothing strobe effect as you glide downstream. Just kick back, shift your mind into neutral, and go with the flow. That's the best way to see the Texas Hill Country.
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The Battle of Bandera Pass in 1841 marked the turning point of the Texas-Indian wars.Though they would continue another 34 years, the tide began to turn at Bandera Pass.Some sources show 1843 as the year of this event.
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Swimming in the Medina River at Bandera, Texas #7
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J. Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine - The Gateway to TEXAS HISTORY & Frontier Genealogy
J Marvin Hunter's Frontier Times Magazine
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This Texas historical and genealogical gold mine was published as a monthly periodical from October 1923 until December 1954.
The primary value of hunters frontier Times Magazine is that the author, J marvin hunter sought to gather the stories of the generation who settled the texas and Frontier region before they passed on.
Combined with old newspaper accounts and writings of authors like J Frank Dobie, CL Crimmins and others this masterpiece of historical value is a vital resource for anyone doing research or genealogical investigation into the Texas Hill Country, Western Texas as well as regions of frontier New Mexico and the Indian Territory or what we know today as Oklahoma.
In 2004 the copyrights were awarded to frontier.com
since then we have sought to make these valuable resources accessible in a way that J marvin hunter would have never dreamed possible.
Our PDF versions of the magazines are available individually in multi issues sets up to our popular 352 issue flash drive.
All files are electronically searchable making it an amazingly accessible Texas History Library abailable anywhere - your PC, your tablet even your smartphone.
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Experience Bandera 2018
Experience Bandera 2018
Labor Day Weekend - Sept. 1 and Sept. 2
The Arthur Nagel Clinic is the proud sponsor of the Arts & Crafts on the Courthouse Lawn.
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Bandera Texas
I may not have the best voice but this came from my heart through excitement of the adventure I am about to have.
I am goin down to Bandera Texas. There gonna make a cowboy outta me. I'm goin down to Bandera Texas. Bandera is the place I wanna be.
I mosey on over to the dude ranch, pick in the spot I wanna stay. With the ridin and the ropin and that big old barbecue. Underneath the stars, above the hay.
I am goin down to Bandera Texas. There gonna make a cowboy outta me. I'm goin down to Bandera Texas. Bandera is the place I wanna be. (With music)
I am goin down to Bandera Texas. There gonna make a cowboy outta me. I'm goin down to Bandera Texas. Bandera is the place I wanna be. (With rhythmic clapping, no music)
I am goin down to Bandera Texas. There gonna make a cowboy outta me. I'm goin down to Bandera Texas. Bandera is the place I wanna be. ( with rhythmic clapping and music).
Yeehaw!
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