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Fischer Cowboys and Stores Shape Early Fischer Texas Life
The serialized history details Lipan and Tonkawa raids in the 1860s, cattle and horse raids, and Otto Stock Fischer’s herd. It chronicles Store Fischer’s store and gin, his banklike shop, two robberies, a postal shift, and the Post Office–Saloon arrangement shaping a frontier community near Wimberley. It notes the post office enduring 99 years and Fischer’s store as a gathering hub for freighters and locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wimberley
Fischer, Texas
Fischers
Ren Dee
Ja Wahrmund
Otto
Fischer
Kansas
Austin
Herman
Willie
Anna
Marshall Tom Martin
Herman Fischer Sr