Bowie, James, Papers 1831-1904

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Bowie, James, Papers 1831-1904

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The James Bowie Papers, 1831-1904,include a photocopy of the 1831 marriage agreement of Bowie and Ursula MariaVeramendi as well as three typescript copies, 1831-1904, of court proceedingsconcerning the Bowie estate and narratives about Bowie's life as an adventurer andsoldier.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Bowie, James, d. 1836

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The son of Reason (or Rezin) and Elve Bowie, James (Jim) Bowie (1796?-1836) moved around the southern United States in his early life, finally settling on a plantation near Opelousas, Louisiana, in around 1809. During the War of 1812, James and his brother Rezin Pleasant Bowie enlisted in the Second Division, Consolidated, of the U.S. Army. After the war, the brothers bought slaves from Jean Laffite and traded them in St. Landry Parish, until raising $65,0000, which James and Rezin ...

Bowie family

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