Show LOG CABIN T IS 15 oldest IN TEXAS ame gad nl icid sarre 41 it 14 aad la is ibe milea cullup lul lup bor Us tain at ar tr rL bidas aloa tre erfur red of t i 1 raws ur urva I 1 r one should credit all the wonder vonder h tul ful stories that the az old mexicans of v sin ban antonio tex are re tr tier eager to r r ue ate concerning the lite prowess id owe sn ani roun a adroit d v a u 1 lure tures ot at the fun fain if oui ous col cal dowie bowie abo bo teu fell la in the alamo ilamo klimo both extraordinary good for or would have bavo fine ali and a charmed life a be attributed to that most remark ible this character li he e came to texas in bearch ot at silver m mines ines burled butted treas trees ires and advent adventure ut es lie ile commence comment 1 ils career in the fine old city by mik mak with a beau OK bit a romantic marriage jiul girt air abo was wa the daugh cr er of 0 a celebrate ft envoy from rora one ot of he central merican merl can republic republics dy by son sou means he be had got posses lon lion of a lot of old maps ot of fexas and upon many ot at thee these were marked place places that bad been abandoned for a hundred y oars two ot at the most important ot of these I 1 n aps and evidently ivl dently the one ones that colonel bowie considered of the greatest alue are in the pon possession sessIon of an old mexican lady in san antonio they were we to in his bosom when he wae was lying on his cot eat la a the alamo watching the final a aa ault 0 of santa anna anni a column columns one ot of them was made by st denis dents who wa was one of the earliest earl lett explorer explorers of 0 LL wild it buu awu eu ll 11 tle iiii rio aurande and ked red river rivers lie ile established f himself under the authority of france a the country in 1711 lie its was a wel w ell educated bright energetic young fel fe I 1 low tow very eager like hin successor eucce or col cal 13 do oIe ie to find a gold mine in order that he be might return to bla big native country and repair the fortunes fort unea of bis big boue house it to I 1 bell believed elied that he succeed ed e d beyond the dream dreams tor for he oon soon bowed showed that he had bisot dums lums ot of both gold and silver at his command ie iwo founded the town of naco nero doches and built th the famous cuartel quartel larga tone stone building which Is still standing bandin tan din though if its w fallt a ile bear a thou and sand marke marks of arrow arro w 8 hot shell and ball that have rained d ag against ainest its it aidea in a hundred battles lie ile must have pent spent fifteen or year years of his life surveying eying exploring trading wah h the indian indians and hunting silver mines 1 before settling at Nacogdoch es he built a trong strong house of at great ced ir log logs and rough done stone in the guadalupe adalupe Ou mountain mountains some eighty miles west welt of the locality afterward selected for the alamo mission lie its frequently visited i this place ostensibly to trade ith I 1 the manches Co and here in the th se wild rugged mountains he was finally murdered by a roving band of at natch z indians whom he mistook for co manche manches the famous old house in some visy ay played an important part in both the gool and bad fortunes of this remarkable young baldo senora don na marla Mlle seca when he was pursued pun tied by the assassins of at governor amaina of cochulla coahulla Coa hulla bulla who was eo so desperately pera per tely enamored ol 01 the brilliant young lady that he ordered his bl min ions tons to butcher st denis and bring donna maria to bis his palace st denis dellis always took with him a faithful guard of young braves lra aben he went nt to this old houe house and when he returned from the place he never falla to bring a train of ponies packed with bullion and bar silver it is I 1 well known that his a alfe made no sec et ot of her belief tao that her husband had people em played in ln working a rich euver silver mine in the mountains moun tans not tar far from this u old boube it Is 1 probably pro babli that st D hiis was alone when sur our and murdered his ills faithful faithful band of braves followed the natcha atch indians tor 01 miles lle to a crossing le or the h n brazos where ehfe they fell fe furiously tr louly upon un the h assassins and slew them to a man donn dotina varia la turned returned re to mexico with a long train ot at mules 11 loaded with the I 1 virgest argest amount of bar silver cut that ever entered the gates at mon M clait bater A er oa on she th visited spain 8 w where she was celebrated tor for her bar great ty beauty ber h magnificent lew and the h oriental splendor of 0 ner her establishment tab lish ment in madrid it 0 to i known that she married P distinguished hed american american tn y a ahat one ot the 1 proudest and most opulent fa famille milles in balu balti mor more are direct descendants of he the extraordinary woman who spent many days and nights in this lonely old log V i am 4 f I 1 w I 1 f 4 I 1 1 5 rile CABIN 1 1 MOUN I 1 i NS fortress zy in the guadalupe w possibly col dowie bowie secured his old maps through his wile wife who phoui was paid d to have been very intimate with h the N family who settled n t alamo in very early times it is certain W that he had not been very long married before he began to talk of recruiting an expedition to for st dents silver mine and the id house which at that was in tle atry heart of the cot gitry at the ter after searching for more than a week bowie himself dis covered st deals old log ouse there as such thing as doubting the fact for the old balading ball ding accurately lut the requirements of the map notes and besides the will w ere to of ballets and then avre w as jf I 1 ii 1 name and tie dit date on A U rock bowle wa wag c w grebill i ato tor for be tad lad no doubt he h i easily b be able to find the til 10 a from alch which SL 8 deal deals bail bad aea taken elm n fortune the canu nc bad had been watching the cis ere ir and nil one on evening th tb v ant ur t I 1 40 it t er of akrc wo into the ih killed 1 wo ot of bow I 1 I 1 ift alp ahk 3 a wounded white whits a men the droe bowles mn into the old boels hou and kept them there an at a sent at 0 arros toi tot wo 0 o k atter after toeing more than 1 I 1 ot of it i forre force col cal bowie with it lh ao inal det ot of hin hi men look took adranga at of a ter t storm and escaped a tight he afterward afterwards aid said by h skin ot of lh IN a teeth upon retiring to san ell atif 1 he be immediately recruit a trot company tt of desperate dea ic in 3 o 0 and returned to the tilt mountain mount alet AILL n they tf ant absent nearly a year slid aadot it la Is known that they he camou rulo ruins of ban buba where bowls 1 can elm ed bla his name on one of the stone 11 lar lars ot of the great fate ante with the tk dili 1832 1932 where it yet remain alter after tilli col COI dowle alway always had plenty ot of do ey no doubt many urr og ng a bare have occurred here about this 11 1 building which hai has been r t ti 1 I 1 11 W A 1 I N 1 i COL COI dottie two ot of the moat most prominent and intel ant eating eting characters in the history ol 01 texas there la to hardly a square tool ot of the walls alls that bu norbern bof been by an arrow or a bullet and it aw could force the secret ot of all these ut ties from the gloomy old cattle castle IW would most certainly be able to plia his hands upon a silver mine lathe th would yield him the fortune of a moo te cristo cristol |