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 ...

That date marked the 170th anniversary of the Alamo. Probably not. I haven't read much about it these last few weeks although one local paper did have some fascinating articles about Texas history.

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 ...

Textbooks of the time also neglected to mention that many Alamo heroes, foremost among them Travis and Bowie, had been slaveholders, even slave traders, or that one account of the 12-day Alamo siege, ...

Deployed at the Alamo, used to kill Count Dracula and bandied about by action hero Crocodile Dundee, the Bowie knife was first forged in the Hempstead County town of Washington, known today as ...

Bowie knife and sheath as pictured in mid-1800s, when the world famous, Louisiana born weaponhelped carve new North American frontiers. The knife was invented by Rezin Bowie and made famous by his ...

My dad Arthur Bernstein's mother's grandmother was Ursula Veramendi Sierra, whose uncle was Jim Bowie. The Veramendi Palace was the scene of many historical events, particularly Bowie's wedding to her ...

For at least one reader of a July 10 column about women survivors of the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, Madam Candelaria is not as shadowy a figure as she is often portrayed to be. The question, which ...