re: Many, LA is done with JBE's bullshite

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Sabine Parish has always been a bunch of outlaws.

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No Man’s Land became a haven for squatters, runaway slaves, army deserters and thieves. Merchants in Natchitoches and present-day Texas, who relied on trading routes that went through No Man’s Land, began seeing their stock and supplies disappear. American revolutionaries, dead-set on taking Texas for the U.S., began showing up. Ironically, the peaceful territory that Spain and the U.S. sought by creating No Man’s Land became everything but. It would take years of Spanish and American forces raiding the camps set up by these interlopers before the No Man’s Land experiment, finally, was ended in 1821. The interpretation varies, however the area was sometimes described as a place filled with an outlaw culture or a different take is that the region could be seen as a bastion for those cultural groups who wished to find a home where they could preserve a way of life they cherished.

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