James Bowie

ID: 3240
This file appears in: 1869 Cut Off/Bowie Land

James Bowie is the namesake for the famous bowie knife. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: 1869 Cut Off/Bowie Land

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #1947 in Simpson County remembers native son James Bowie, who died at the Alamo in 1836, and that county’s 1869 redrawn boundary with neighboring Logan County. “Remember the…