Frontier Times Museum


For a little perspective on bygone days in Bandera, stop by these displays of Western art, cowboy tchotchkes such as guns and branding irons, and 'curiosities' including a celebrated two-faced goat, collected by the museum’s founder J Marvin Hunter.


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