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Part Two: Jim Bowie: The Worst Texan

Behind the Bastards

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Jim Bowie and the Native Americans in Texas

Jim Bowie's brother John describes the massacre of a bunch of Native Americans that Bowie commits not long after getting to Texas. The natives were acting in self defense because again, Bowie and his brothers were part of a posse of large armed men who had come under their land to steal a bunch of silver. "I don't know how much I trust the story of Jim Bowie about his accuracy in a gunfight"

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