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Bowie, James, 1790-

Military officer; born in Burke county, Ga., about 1790; took an active part in the Texas revolution, and in January, 1836, was ordered to San Antonio de Bexar, where he joined Colonels Travis and Crockett, and was [389] killed with then at the taking of the Alamo (q. v.), March 6, 1836. He was inventor of the Bowie knife.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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