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James "Jim" Bowie (April 10, 1796 – March 6, 1836) was a nineteenth century American pioneer and soldier who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution and was killed at the Battle of the Alamo. He gained fame in 1827 when newspapers printed details of the Sandbar Fight, in which Bowie killed the sheriff of Rapides Parish with a large knife. Within the next few years Bowie's fame, and that of his knife, spread around the world. In 1830, Bowie moved to Texas, where he became a Mexican citizen and married the daughter of the then-vice governor of the province. With the outbreak of the Texas Revolution, Bowie joined the Texas militia, leading a force at the Battle of Concepcion and at the Grass Fight. In January 1836, he joined the Texian army at the Alamo in San Antonio. He died with the other Alamo defenders on March 6. Witness reports gave conflicting accounts of his manner of death, but the "most popular, and probably the most accurate accounts maintain that he died in his bed after emptying his pistols into several Mexican soldiers. Stories of his frontier spirit have made him one of the most colorful folk heroes of Texas history.

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