Here's an excerpt from a tale about a mine in the Packsaddle Mountains.
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". . . what's the real story about the mine that was supposedly there? Was it the silver mine that Jim Bowie spent so much time looking for? Did the Spanish work it until they were attacked by Indians or was it the Indians' mine until the Spanish attacked them? Again, accounts differ.
One story has it that the Los Almagres gold and silver mine was located atop the mountain after Don Bernardo de Mirango found a rich vein in 1757. The mine was worked for the better part of two decades until a large group of Indians attacked the mine. Realizing they were about to be killed, the miners filled in the mine so the Indians wouldn't have access to it.
Or maybe the Indians worked the mines until the Spanish launched an unsuccessful assault. The Spanish attackers were all killed in the process and the Indians, fearing a larger and more successful assault from a Spanish settlement at present-day Menard on the San Saba River, filled in the mine and landscaped the area to make it indistinguishable from the rest of the mountain.
Either way, the top of the mountain was littered with human bones for many years afterwards, attesting to the fact that something of a violent nature took place there."
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