William Augustus Bowles, AKA "Billy Bowlegs", was a Maryland-born English adventurer and organizer of the Native American attempts to create their own state outside of Euro-American control. He fought with the Indians against the Spanish and lost.

After the war he moved to the Bahamas, and met a ravishing young women named Lady Helen Backery. He wooed her and convinced her to relocate to his favorite port, Camp Walton, now known as Fort Walton Beach. Billy quickly packed up Lady Helen and sent her sailing. Billy knew if she didn't leave quickly, Helen would learn of his 2 wives and 5 children. Helen foolishly fell for Billy's notorious bad boy ways and with out haste moved to the Gulf Coast.

When she finally arrived she was shocked, as Billy was no where to be found!! Helen waited for several years becoming resentful and enraged with him, only to learn that Billy never left the Bahamas. To pass the time and keep from thinking of Billy, Lady Helen worked as a bar maid at a dive hidden in a barrier island south of Camp Walton. Eventually, she contacted the Spanish, turned Billy in, and collected the bounty of $600,000 and 1,500 kegs of rum.Finally, Lady Helen decided to buy that very pirate bar with Billy's bounty money and sell Hurricanes with the rum. She named the bar Helen Back. Over 20 years later Helen Back still sits, serving the world's best hand tossed pizza, and cold libations under the Florida sun.

“D’Wons Tale”