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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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Frontier Times Museum: A Monument to Pioneer Days )〕 ==Biography== 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wayne Gard, "John Marvin Hunter" )〕 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''.〔 In 1925, Hunter posthumously published the autobiography of outlaw John Wesley Hardin.〔 His books include ''Pioneer History of Bandera County: Seventy-five Years of Intrepid History'' (1922), ''The Bloody Trail in Texas'' (1931), ''Old Camp Verde, the Home of the Camels'' (1939), a reference to Jefferson Davis's 1850s camel experiment in the Southwest, ''Cooking Recipes of the Pioneers'' (1948), and ''Peregrinations of a Pioneer Printer'' (1954). His own autobiography and ''The Story of Lottie Deno: Her Life and Times'' (1959) appeared after his death. He also edited ''The Trail Drivers of Texas'' (1920 and 1923) and co-authored ''Album of Gunfighters'' (1951).〔 In June 1940, ''Frontier Times'' published "The Old Chisholm Trail" by the journalist Elmo Scott Watson, who earlier had discovered the old-time cowboy Frank H. Maynard working as a nightwatchman at the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo in Colorado Springs, Colorado.〔Frank H. Maynard, ''Cowboy's Lament: A Life on the Open Range'' (Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2010), p. 29, ISBN 978-0-89672-705-2〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Frontier Times Magazine'', Vol. 17, No. 9 (June 1940) )〕 Hunter envisioned the museum as a sales vehicle for his books and other materials. After Hunter’s death, the Doan Foundation, named for Chicago industrialist F.B. Doan, acquired the museum. In 1972, the foundation bequeathed the facility to the museum's board of trustees.〔 As an oral historian, Hunter was fortunate in that many of the frontier settlers, cattlemen, and pioneers were still living at the time he did the majority of his research and writing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=J. Marvin Hunter )〕 In July 2009, the Frontier Times Museum posthumously inducted Hunter along with folklorist J. Frank Dobie and marksman Joe Bowman into its newly established Texas Heroes Hall of Honor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「J. Marvin Hunter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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