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Frontier Days of Texas Bowie Expedition at San Saba
In late October 1831 James Bowie returns to San Antonio from New Orleans and leads an expedition with Resin P. Bowie David Buchanan and others toward the San Saba gold mines. On November 2 they clash with 164 Comanches and allies, Bowie’s men hold strategic ground, dueling severe casualties on both sides, and the party fights off a grass fire until dawn, then retreats toward San Antonio after eight days of battle backed by a fortified breastwork built by the wounded and their comrades.
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James Bowie
San Antonio
New Orleans
San Saba
Resin P. Bowie
David Buchanan
Robert Armstrong
Jesse Wallace
Matthew Doyle
Cephas D. Hamm
James Coryell
Thomas McCaslin
Charles
Gonzales
Isacnie
Liano River
Bowie
Isaonie
Isaomie
Old Fort
Bowley
Rezin Bowie
Buchanan
Kevin Bowie
Cephas Hamm
Tam
Hamm
Little Charles
Little Creek
Doyle
McCaslin
Armstrong
Powie
Dloze
Guadalupe County
Major Doyle
Dial
Janis Coryell
Coryell County
Alamo