Magnolia 100: Six Shooter Junction Boutique

Most boutiques name themselves after something soft. A flower, a season, somebody's grandmother. Six Shooter Junction Boutique, on FM 1488 east of downtown, is named for a courthouse that got shot more than seventy-five times. The name belongs to Hempstead, the Waller County seat, which spent the railroad decades so thick with political gunfights that Texans called it Six-Shooter Junction. The nickname peaked in 1905, when a gunfight broke out at a courthouse prohibition meeting and left a sitting U.S. congressman and his brother among the dead. The store's own telling of its history leans into all of it. Sell Texas fashion under a Texas name, the thinking goes, and pick a name with a story in it.

Find it

The woman who chose the counter over the corner office.

Dana Frazier spent years as a district manager for Jared, the jewelry chain, the kind of job that comes with regions and reports and very little time on the sales floor. In August 2013 the company wanted to relocate her to Ohio. She declined. What she wanted, she said at the time, was a job with more of the part she actually liked — the people. By December 2013 she had opened Six Shooter Junction in Magnolia.

Twelve years on, the philosophy hasn't moved an inch. "Everybody's family," Frazier told Community Impact when the store was young. "It's not just about the sale. It's the relationships." That's a line every retailer says. Fewer build their buying around it: the store deliberately stocks shallow — a handful of each piece rather than racks of the same top — so customers aren't wearing each other's outfits around town. Sell out, reorder something new, keep the floor moving.

What's on the racks.

Women's fashion, mostly: tops, dresses, denim, boots, jewelry, with a strong lean toward Texas vendors and Texas-made lines. It's the kind of inventory built for the Magnolia calendar: something for a Friday-night game, something for church, something for a rodeo weekend. Prices have historically run accessible rather than precious. A second location followed in downtown Montgomery, on Liberty Street, making it a genuinely local two-town operation.

At a glance

Where

17645 FM 1488, Magnolia, TX 77354

Run by

Dana Frazier, owner since December 2013

Hours

Tue–Fri 11 a.m.–6 p.m. · Sat 11 a.m.–4 p.m. · Closed Sun–Mon

Second shop

14348 Liberty St, Montgomery, TX 77356

Twelve years on a road under construction.

Ask any business owner on FM 1488 about the last few years and you'll hear about the road before you hear about anything else. Frazier is on the record about it. "People complain all the time that they can't get to the store because the traffic is so horrible," she told Community Impact in 2025, as the widening dragged through its third year. She gave the road crews their due in the same breath — TxDOT "has made some great progress as far as doing the best they can and getting some of it done. It's just taken so very long; it hasn't been a quick project." That's about as fair a review of the corridor as anyone has put on the record, and elsewhere in this issue we have news about exactly how much longer "so very long" runs.

Why it belongs in the Magnolia 100.

Plenty of stores can sell you a dress. What a town can't order from a catalog is a shopkeeper who turned down the corporate ladder to learn faces, stuck through twelve years and a torn-up highway, and named the place after a piece of Texas history most people never learned in school. Six Shooter Junction is a small story about what FM 1488 actually is under all the construction. Not a traffic problem, but a row of people who chose this town on purpose. If the orange cones have kept you away, the store is easier to reach than the complaints suggest. Go let them know your name.

Editor's note: A positive Magnolia 100 profile — a celebration of a local business, not a paid placement and not a review. Details come from the store's own materials and public reporting; we did not accept payment for this feature and the subject had no review rights. Profiles in this series are always free.