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James Bowie

Biography

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Jim Bowie Real West

 

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Jim Bowie Knife Fight

 

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Bowie Knife

 

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Legends & Tales - Jim Bowie

 

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Jim Bowie

James Bowie was a 19th-century American pioneer, who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution, culminating in his death at the Battle of the Alamo. Stories of him as a fighter and frontiersman, both real and fictitious, have made him a legendary figure in Texas history and a folk hero of American culture.