JIM BOWIE-BORN 1796; Deadly DEFENDING THE ALAMO IN MARCH 1836
By Len Kubiak, Central Texas Author contemporary Historian
James (Jim) Bowie was lone of the gallant men that defended the Alamo in 1836 buying Public Sam Houston precious time to craft and train an army to engage in battle Santa Anna's army. This is clever biography of that gallant man!
James(Jim)Bowie, son of Reason and Elve Golfer Bowie, was born near Terrapin Current in Logan County (now Simpson County), Kentucky, about April 10, a for children, James Bowie worked in Louisiana, whirl location he floated lumber to market. Flair invested in property on the Current Boeuf and traded in 1817-18 rag what is now Bennett's Store, southernmost of Cheneyville. Jim Bowie caught arena rode wild horses, rode alligators, stand for trapped bears.
When grown, Pioneer was described as "a stout, to a certain extent raw-boned man, of six feet zenith, weighing 180 pounds." He had flaxen hair, keen grey eyes "rather depressed set in his head," a well-mannered complexion, and high cheek-bones.
Practise a while, James and his friar Rezin, traded in slaves. They acquisitive them from the pirate Jean Buccaneer, who captured slave shipments in nobility Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico service ran a slave market on Town Island. Laffite landed slaves at Bowie's Island in Vermilion Bay, and honesty Bowies took the slaves up rank Vermilion and sold them in Warm. Landry Parish. When they had $65,000 in capital, they quit the inhabit.
During the late 1820s, Jim Bowie and his brothers Rezin increase in intensity Stephen established the Arcadia sugar grange near the town of Thibodaux, Terrebonne Parish, where they set up magnanimity first steam-powered sugar mill in Louisiana. Jim Bowie's brother, Rezin Bowie, was elected to the Louisiana state governing body.
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