About this tour
Long before Bandera drew tourists to its dude ranches, it was a working outpost on the edge of the Texas frontier — a Ranger patrol stop, a Confederate defense post, and later the hometown of the man who built a museum to keep that history from disappearing. This short walk through downtown Bandera covers a Ranger battle fought in a nearby pass, a Civil War-era defense line, and two generations of the Hunter family who turned frontier stories into a magazine, a museum, and a body of art that's since hung in the Smithsonian and the White House.