Rezin Pleasant Bowie was a planter, inventor, and mercenary. He also served three terms in the Louisiana House of Representatives.
An early Bowie of the type made for Rezin Bowie and commissioned by the Bowies to Searles and Constable. This is a copy of the Fowler Bowie currently displayed at the Alamo.
A Bowie knife
James Bowie's 1831 report of Indian fight near San Saba from Brown's History of Texas (1892)
Rezin Bowie's account of an Indian fight in Texas in 1831 [with 1833 woodcut illustration].
James Bowie was a 19th-century American pioneer, slave smuggler and trader, and soldier who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. He was among the Americans who died at the Battle of the Alamo. Stories of him as a fighter and frontiersman, both real and fictitious, have made him a legendary figure in Texas history and a folk hero of American culture.
Bowie c. 1831–1834
A Bowie knife
Antonio López de Santa Anna, president of Mexico, led the Mexican Army into Texas.
The Alamo, c. 1847