Online Books

• Pioneer History of Bandera County: Seventy-five Years of Intrepid History  - J. Marvin Hunter ~ Fully Searchable

 
• Inventory of the County Archives of Texas ~ Bandera County

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Books you can buy or send for through interlibrary loan

• How I Got To Bandera

(A collection of True Tales from Riders on the Bandera Road)
Compiled and Edited by Richard Stevens 
 
• 150 Year Commemorative History of  St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church, Bandera, Texas

 
• " Inklings of the Past" By Margaret B. FockeVols' 1 ,2, 3

• Bandera County History Book Committee, History of Bandera County, Texas (Dallas: Curtis, 1986). 

• Mrs. Howard Graves, History of Bandera County Schools for over a Century (Bandera, Texas: Bandera County Historical Survey Committee, 1973). 

• Baptist Century in the Sabinal Canyon (Austin: Nortex, 1986). 

 
• Douglas E. Barnett, Mohair in Texas: Livestock Experimentation on the Edwards Plateau (M.A. thesis,  University of Texas at Austin, 1983).

• James B. Gibson, "Indian Raids in Bandera County," 

 
• Frontier Times, June 1936. J. Marvin Hunter, A Brief History of Bandera County (Bandera, Texas: Frontier Times, 1949). J. Marvin Hunter,

• One Hundred Years in Bandera, 1853-1953 (Bandera, Texas: Hunter's Printing, 1953). J. Marvin Hunter, 

• Pioneer History of Bandera County (Bandera, Texas: Hunter's Printing, 1922). 

• Mrs. Albert Maverick, "Ranch Life in Bandera County after 1878," Frontier Times, April 1928. T. U. Taylor, 

 
• "Bandera County Pioneer Cattle Brands," Frontier Times, June 1937. 

• T. Lindsay Baker, The First Polish Americans: Silesian Settlements in Texas (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1979). 

• Frank W. Johnson, A History of Texas and Texans (5 vols., ed. E. C. Barker and E. W. Winkler [Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1914; rpt. 19

•  Bandera County History Book Committee, History of  Bandera County, Texas (Dallas: Curtis, 1986). 

• Bandera County Homes and Buildings of History (2 vols.,  Bandera, Texas, 971-72). 

• Camp Montel -Charles de Montel Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. William Curry Holden, "Frontier Defense in Texas during the Civil War," West Texas Historical Association Year Book 4  (1928). 

• Little Towns of Texas (Jacksonville, Texas: Jayroe Graphic  Arts, 1982). 

• Texas Surveyors Association Historical Committee, Three Dollars Per Mile: Accounts of Early Surveying in Texas 

(Burnet, Texas: Eakin Press, 1981). 

•  "The Riverside House," Bandera County  Historian, Winter 1983. Cyril Matthew Kuehne, S.M., 

• Ripples from Medina Lake (San Antonio: Naylor, 1966). James C. and Robert Sidney Martin,

• C. Stanley Banks, "The Mormon Migration into Texas,"Southwestern Historical Quarterly 49 (October 1945). Davis Bitton, ed., The  Reminiscences and Civil War Letters of Levi Lamoni Wight (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1970). 

• Gillespie County Historical Society, Pioneers in  God's Hills (2 vols., Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1960, 1974). 

• "Lyman Wight and the Mormons in Texas," Frontier Times, June 1941. 

•  Bandera Bulletin, July 5, 1957. Florence Elberta Barns, Texas Writers of Today (Dallas: Tardy, 1935). J. Marvin Hunter Papers, Barker  Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.

•  J. Marvin Hunter, Peregrinations of a Pioneer Printer: An Autobiography (Grand Prairie, Texas: Frontier Times, 1954). 

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Novels about Bandera County

The Man From Bandera by Selby Parker, ED.D - available online at Google.com

The Camel Boy, a novel about the Civil War by Selby Parker, ED.D - available online at Google.com