After way too much work, I was able to get history behavior (back button) for bootstrap 3 tabs

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$(document).ready(function(){
    // bootsrtap tab control setup
    $('.nav-tabs a').click(function (e) {
      e.preventDefault();
      $(this).tab('show');
    });
    // Manage HISTORY (back button behavior) for tabs
    // add a hash to the URL when the user clicks on a tab
    // relies on https://github.com/devote/HTML5-History-API/ to support pushState()
    $('a[data-toggle="tab"]').on('click', function(e) {
      console.log($(this).attr('href'));
      history.pushState(null, null, $(this).attr('href'));
    });
    // // navigate to a tab when the history changes
    showTabFromUrl = function(e) {
      if (location.hash.substr(0,3)=="#/#") {
        hashToUse = location.hash.substr(2);
      } else {
        hashToUse = location.hash;
      }
      var activeTab = $('[href=' + hashToUse + ']');
      if (activeTab.length) {
        activeTab.tab('show');
      } else {
        $('.nav-tabs a:first').tab('show');
      }
    }
    // cross-browser call to bind showTab
    if (!window.addEventListener) {
      window.attachEvent("popstate", showTabFromUrl);
    } else {
      window.addEventListener("popstate", showTabFromUrl, false);
    }

  });// doc ready