Song of the Balcones

Five years before the Texian Revolt, canny spy Deaf Smith witnesses war.

In late 1831, the Republic of Mexico battled Native Americans in the Hill Country north of San Antonio, then an outpost on the northeastern frontier. Song of the Balcones tells part of the legend of the lost Bowie Silver Mine that J. Frank Dobie called “The great epic of Texas.”

A recording of a radio broadcast can be downloaded at http://soundcloud.com/user-172550072/sets/song-of-the-balcones.

On August 21, 1988, Howi...