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Bowie goes looking for silver and finds Indians
[dropcap]J[/dropcap]im Bowie went looking for underground riches in 1831 but found instead a bunch of belligerent Indians on Nov. 20.
“The Lost Bowie Mine” was not always lost nor was it always named after the famous frontiersman. In 1753 Spaniards searching for a place to put a mission in present-day Llano County learned of a cedro de almagre or hill of red ocher. Several explorers were shown the mineral-rich mound by obliging Apaches.
Three years later, Bernardo de Miranda y Flores l...