Rezin Bowie
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Rezin Pleasant Bowie was an American planter, inventor, and mercenary. He also served three terms in the Louisiana House of Representatives.
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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
Woodcut illustrating Rezin Bowie's 1833 account of an 1831 Indian fight in Texas appearing in the Saturday Evening Post and Atkinson's Casket
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].](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/1833_Rezin_Bowie_-_An_Indian_battle_-_The_casket.pdf/page1-500px-1833_Rezin_Bowie_-_An_Indian_battle_-_The_casket.pdf.jpg)
Rezin Bowie's account of an Indian fight in Texas in 1831 [with 1833 woodcut illustration].In their orbit 1
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About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1793 to 1841 · aged 47
Written about in
4 languages
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