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Part One: Jim Bowie: The Worst Texan

Behind the Bastards

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Jim Bowie Was a Great Frontiersman

Jim Bowie was a pretty good frontiersman um he squatted on land chopped and sold cypress wood which he saw down on the planks and then floated down by the river into town. He also hunted a great deal uh and his brother john wrote that he developed a particularly painful way of hunting bears. The bear would stick its snout on the stuff the stump to get honey and then as it pulled its head out the spikes would gouge into its face and so its head would be trapped inside the log like with iron spikes gouged into its mouth. Then while the bear was in horrible agony trying to free itself and blinded because its head stuck in a stump he would just shoot

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