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lrlalnlng above all the other lI'eaSllfC SC3I'Cl'1Cl'S IS the flnllfe of BITICS BOWIE When Bowne came to western Texas about 1830 a band of Lnpan lndnans a branch of the Apaches were roamnng the Llano refvnon Thenr chnef was named Xolnc and for a long tnme Xolnc had been nn the habnt of leadnnv hns people down to San Antonno once or twnce a year to barter They alway brouvht wnth them some snlver bullnon The Spannards and Nlexncans thouGht that the Lnpan ore had been chnpped off some rnch xenn there was a touch of Gold nn nt Of course they trned to learn the secret of uch wealth but the lndnans had a trnbal understandnnfr that nf any man of thenr number revealed the ource of the mnneral he should be tortured to death Al lenfvth thc people of San Antonno UTENV accustomed to the nlver bearnng Lnpans and cea ed to pry nnto thenr secret lwhen came the curnous Amerncans Bowne land hns plan carefully lle at once began to cultnvate the frnendshnp of tlne l npans He sent back east for a hne rnfle plated wnth snlver XVhen nt came he presented nt lo Chnef Xolnc A powwow was held and at San Pedro Sprnnffs Bowne was adopted nnto the trnbe Now followed months of lnfe wnth the savaGes Bowne was expert at shootnnfv the buffalo he was foremost nn fnGhtnnG avannst enemnes of the Lnpan He became such a Good lndnan and was so useful a warrnor than hns adopted brothers hnally showed hnm what he had jonned them to see He had expected much but he had hardly expected to be dazzled by such mnllnons as fleeted hns eyes Whether nt was natural venns of ore that he beheld or a Great torave of smelted bullnon levend has not determnned Anyway nt was Spannsh stuff The snvht seemed to overthrow all cautnon and judfvment Almost nmmednately after learnnnfv thenr secret Bowne deserted the Lnpans and sped to San Antonno to ranse a force for senznng the wealth On November 2 l83l Bowne set out to fnnd the Spannsh mnne Hns brother Reznn P Bowne was nn the company and was perhaps the leadnnG spnrnt ln has been clanmed that he had made a prevnous trnp of exploratnon nnto the San Saba connntry where thns mnne was supposed to be located If ames Bowne knew exactly where he was gonng he coursed nn a stranGe manner l fact he took so much tnme nn examnnnnG the nature of nhe country to use hns own words that three weeks after settnno out from San Antonno he had not yet arrnved at the abandoned presndno on the San Saba only a hundred and fnfty mnles away Yet the San Saba fort was a chnef nf not the chnef objectnve of the expedntnon for the Bownes were certann that nt had protected the Spannards whnle worknnu the snlver mnnes whnch are a mnle dn tant Why then dnd the Bownes not go dnrectly to the fort and the mnne? Dnd nm Bowne know from a Lnpans confndence of some other place3 Where had he spent the three weeks nn scoutnnv before he was stopped7 unen sabc'-7 On the Nnneteenth of November a frnendly Comanche warned hnm that hostnle lndnans were out They were mostly Caddos W acos and Tehuacanas About daylnGht on the Twenty Fnrst one hundred and snxty four hostnles fnfteen aGannst one swooped down upon the Bowne camp The Texans were not unready They had the advantaffe of a thncket and of benng near water nn a creek The fnfvht lasted all day One man was knlled three others were wounded The lndnans had fnfty dead and thnrty fnve wounded Wnth a comrade named Buchanan shot so nn the leg that he could not rnde and wnth most of thenr horses knlled or crnppled the mnne hunters remanned nn camp for enGht days They were not provnded wnth surfvncal nnstruments or wnth medncnnes of any knnd not even a dose of salts NVhnle wantnnv for the dnsabled to recover suffncnently to travel some of the Bowne party found a cave near camp Ten days were requnred for the hobblnnv journey back to San Antonno l'xact locatnon of the battle ground would be nnterestnnv to some seekers of mnne and treasure for they say that the cave near the Bowne camp held somethnng When james Bowne set out for the San Saba Mme he must have known where nt was Mnranda found the Almagre venn south of the Llano and powers who dnd not lnsten to hnm establnshed the presndno of San Luns de las Amarnllas on the north bank of the San Saba twenty leagues away Reznn P Bowne asserted that the Spannsh mnne was only a mnle from the presndno But the Lost San Saba or Bowne Mme enwelops both these locatnons as well as many others Sometnmes nt ns as far east as the Colorado and sometnmes nt ns as far west as the Nueces What the Colden Fleece was to the Greeks or what l'l Dorado the Gnlded Man has been to South Amernca the lost mnnes on the San Saba and Llano rnvers nn Texas have been to all that part of the Unnted States once owned by Spann The story of these mnnes ns a cycle made up of a thousand cantos Housed mechanncs preachers teachers doctors lawyers earth treadnnv farmers and home staynnfv women as well as roamnnG cowboys ranvers out laws and mnners have told the stranffe story and belnewed nt In ns a story of yesterday as obso ete as the clanmnnG of contnnents by prnornty nn fla honstnng nt ns a story of today as lantastnc and' romantnc as the hopes of man Throufh nt hnstory walks unabashed and nn nt fancy sets no lnmnt to extravafvance l nke most Great levends the levend ofthe San Saba Nlnne ns a maGnnhCatnon of hnstorncal fact Condensed from fornnunlu s flnnldrtn Chapter l The lnsn San Saba Mnne . 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