The Alamo

ID: 3241
This file appears in: 1869 Cut Off/Bowie Land

The Alamo in San Antonio is strong symbol to Texans. Jim Bowie was killed at the Alamo with the rest of the American defenders in 1836.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress

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…