Bowie family papers.

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Bowie family papers.

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Papers document the financial and legal concerns of the Bowie family, from Catahoula Parish and Saint Joseph, Louisiana, and Phillips County, Arkansas.

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Bowie, A. T.

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Bowie, Stephen.

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Bowie, John J.

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Bowie, Rhesa

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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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