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Part One: Jim Bowie: The Worst Texan

Behind the Bastards

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Long and the Mexican Army in the Middle of the Night

By the time long reached naka doches his 300 men wouldn't be much of a match for the entire mexican army so he attempted to draw more filibusters down by offering them land at a dollar an acre. jim buoy was immediately one of the most popular of these filibusters mainly because he was really good at getting into gun fights which happened pretty regularly during this period of time. By october of night of 1819 they driven him and his men out of naka Doches. Within a month or so the expedition was a shambles and jim buoy fled back to louisiana because he didn't really want to get his ass kicked, says Long.

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