Behind the Bastards

Part One: Jim Bowie: The Worst Texan

Robert is joined by Billy Wayne Davis to discuss Jim Bowie, the biggest piece of crap in the Old West.FOOTNOTES:
<a href="http://bowieknifefightsfighters.blogspot.com/2013/03/senora-candelarias-account-of-death-of.html">What became of Jim Bowie's famous knife?</a>
<a href="https://books.google.com/books?pg=PA456&amp;lpg=PA456&amp;dq=senora+candelaria+alamo&amp;id=KWMfAQAAMAAJ&amp;ots=BpjdFRE9dh#v=onepage&amp;q=senora%20candelaria%20alamo&amp;f=false">Hero Tales of the American Soldier</a>
<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=BAYWG7D_HSoC&amp;q=bowie#v=onepage&amp;q=bowie&amp;f=false">Three Roads to the Alamo</a>
<a href="https://dailyhistory.org/The_Mysterious_Illness_of_Jim_Bowie:_How_Did_He_Contribute_to_His_Own_Decline%3f">The Mysterious Illness of Jim Bowie: How Did He Contribute to His Own Decline?</a>
<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/30235302?read-now=1&amp;seq=1">James Bowie, Big Dealer</a>
<a href="https://thehistorybandits.com/2015/07/04/selling-the-sandbar-marketing-the-bowie-knife/">Selling the Sandbar: Marketing the Bowie Knife</a>
<a href="https://truewestmagazine.com/no-wounds-back/">No Wounds In His Back</a>
<a href="https://shannonselin.com/2015/08/jim-bowie-before-the-gaudy-legend/">Jim Bowie Before the “Gaudy Legend”</a>
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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.