Bowie, Jim

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Bowie, Jim ( James) (1796–1836) US frontiersman. He moved to Texas from Louisiana in 1828, and married the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor. By 1832 he had joined the US colonists who opposed the Mexican government. He was appointed a colonel in the Texas Army (1835), and was killed at the Alamo (1836).

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