(WVUE) - Frontiersman Jim Bowie was born in Kentucky and ... Separating fact from legend is never easy when it comes to Bowie and his celebrated knife. But in the Heart of Louisiana, Dave McNamara ...

(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 Kentucky ...