Facts: - residence: bandera , bandera county , texas - period: 1921-1957 - death date: 29 june 1957 - genre: american west - spouse: -lrb- marriage in 1901 -rrb- 1 -rrb- hattie westerman -lrb- died soon after - children: four children - birth date: 18 march 1880 - name: john marvin hunter - nationality: american - death place: kerrville , kerr county , texas - religion: church of christ - birth place: mason county , texas , usa - occupation: journalist ; historian ; printer Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of j. marvin hunter .
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john marvin hunter -lrb- march 18 , 1880 -- june 29 , 1957 -rrb- 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 .