Jim Bowie is having a moment. Why? It's his birthday. He was born on this date in Kentucky in 1796. The famed knife fighter, land speculator, slave trader and Texas revolutionary died at the Alamo ...

The Bowie knife is as much a part of the lore of the expansion of America as the man that it is named after, James “Jim” Bowie. So, where did the Bowie knife come from, how did it get to where it is ...

Even so, Monty McNutt's Curious Louisiana question is about about Jim Bowie's Holmesville connection. The Baton Rougean was intrigued by a previous Curious Louisiana story involving Avoyelles ...

VIDALIA, La. (WVUE) - Frontiersman Jim Bowie was born in Kentucky and died in Texas at The Alamo. But he actually became famous during the years he spent growing up, working -- sometimes as a ...