Bowie family portraits, circa 1820-1850.

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Bowie family portraits, circa 1820-1850.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/259818156

Photographic reproductions of portraits of James Bowie and other Bowie family members. Some personal information is recorded on the back of the prints. There is also a photograph of James Bowie's rifle and sword recovered from the Alamo.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Bowie family.

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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 ...