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The lost San Saba mine, the Bowie mine

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

Spain worked silver at Los Almagres somewhere in the San Saba hills in the 1750s, guarded from the presidio on the river, then abandoned the country. Jim Bowie went hunting the sealed workings in 1831 and fought a famous all-day battle with the Comanche rather than quit the search, five years before he died at the Alamo. Texans have hunted it ever since; it is the oldest and biggest lost-mine story in the state.

The ground it haunts

San Saba River hill country near Menard (TX). Source: The presidio and the Spanish workings are archival fact; the location is the mystery. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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