BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - It was on a sandbar not far from this spot on the Mississippi River near Vidalia, Louisiana, where frontiersman Jim Bowie made a name for himself and his knife. Born in ...

VIDALIA, La. (WVUE) - Frontiersman Jim Bowie was born in Kentucky and died in Texas at The Alamo. But he actually became famous during the years he spent growing up, working -- sometimes as a slave ...

Nearly 190 years after his death, the mention of Jim Bowie still stirs the imagination of admirers around the world. But Bowie was more than just the knife or the battle at the Alamo. Overall, it was ...