William Brister in Texas
Story told by the Frontier Times:
Published Monthly At Bandera, Texas
By J. Marvin Hunter
Vol. 9-No. 4January, 1932$2.00 per year
Story El Tordillo Holds Secrets Page 161
The first settlers in the vicinity of El Tordillo were the brothers Dan and William Brister.They moved there in 1854, from a place they had settled in 1874 on the Cibolo, just above the mouth of the Martinez driven to the move, old Dan said, because the Cibolo country had got so full of people that he didn't have elbow room.Soon after the arrivals of the Brister, Indians came along and drove off quite a number of their horses.Whether the animals were recovered is not remembered.]