Only in Texas, Bowie High School on Cesar Chavez Highway.
James "Jim" "Santiago" Bowie (March 10, 1796 – March 6, 1836) was a nineteenth-century American, Spanish and Mexican pioneer, soldier, smuggler, slave trader, and land speculator, who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution, culminating in his death 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.
Born in Kentucky, Bowie spent most of his life in Louisiana, he arrived in 1802, while it was still Spanish, where he was raised. His rise to fame began in 1827 on reports of the Sandbar Fight. What began as a duel between two other men deteriorated into a melée in which Bowie, having been shot and stabbed, killed the sheriff of Rapides Parish (Alexandria, LA) with a large knife. This, and other stories of Bowie's prowess with a knife, led to the widespread popularity of the Bowie knife (though he may not have been using a knife of the style now named after him).
Bowie's reputation was cemented by his role in the Texas Revolution. After moving to Texas in 1830, Bowie became a Mexican citizen and married Ursula Veramendi, the daughter of the Mexican vice governor of the province (Coahuila y Tejas, which didn't include El Paso, Pecos, Big Bend, in Chihuahua, or Laredo, McAllen, Brownsville, in Tamaulipas or Lubbock, Amarillo in Nuevo Mexico). At the outbreak of the Texas Revolution, Bowie joined the Texas militia, leading forces at the Battle of Concepción and the Grass Fight. In January 1836, he arrived at the Alamo (San Antonio), where he commanded the volunteer forces until an illness left him bedridden. He was killed in bed, just before his 40th birthday.