J. Marvin Hunter
| John Marvin Hunter | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 18, 1880 Mason County, Texas, USA |
| Died | June 29, 1957 (aged 77) Kerrville, Kerr County, Texas |
| Occupation | Journalist; Historian; Printer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1921-1957 |
| Genre | American West |
| Spouse |
(1) Hattie Westerman (died soon after marriage in 1901) |
| Children | Four children |
(1) Hattie Westerman (died soon after marriage in 1901)
John Marvin Hunter (March 18, 1880 – June 29, 1957) was an author, historian, journalist, and printer who founded the Frontier Times Museum in Bandera, Texas. The museum, which contains about 40,000 artifacts of the American West, opened in 1933, It is named for Hunter's Frontier Times magazine, which was first published in 1923.
Hunter was born to John Warren Hunter and the former Mary Ann Calhoun in Loyal Valley in Mason County, Texas, and was raised in the communities of San Saba, Menard, and Mason. He left school to work for his father’s newspaper, the Mason Herald. He later worked for newspapers called The Times in both Llano and Comfort, Texas, the latter publication which he had founded but soon abandoned. In 1899, he plunged into the tasks of Two Republics, a bilingual daily in Mexico City. After the Mexican government suppressed the paper, Hunter returned to the United States.
After working for other newspapers and trying his hand as a rancher in Kimble County, Hunter settled permanently in Bandera in the Texas Hill Country, where he published the Bandera New Era from 1921–1935 and the Bandera Bulletin from 1945 until his death twelve years later. Hunter published 16 papers, many of which were four-page weeklies set by hand. He also wrote western history books and printed brochures and other publications on a contract basis. Besides Frontier Times, he published the defunct Hunter’s Magazine and Hunter’s Frontier Magazine.
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