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Sister Arkansas, with her bowie- knife graceful at her side, like the huntress Diana with her silver bow, oh it would be refreshing and recruiting to an exhausted patriot to go and replenish his soul at her fountains.
Bowie, who was the brother-in-law of our friend Mr. Reverdy Johnson, of Baltimore, asking them to see that no further harm was done. Soon after we left the house I saw some negroes carrying away furniture which manifestly belonged to the house, and compelled them to carry it back; and after reaching camp that night, at Hard Times, I sent a wagon back to Bowie's plantation, to bring up to Dr.
Both were fearless, both self-possessed and independent; and both types of a civilization that in the seventeenth century would have been called heroic, but, in the nineteenth, simply "reckless." "What have you got there? I call," said Tennessee, quietly. "Two bowers and an ace," said the stranger, as quietly, showing two revolvers and a bowie knife.
And I've ridden, too, with Jim Bowie and 'Deaf' Smith and Karnes." Urrea smiled pleasantly at Ned's boyish enthusiasm. "And they are great men, too," he said, "Bowie, Smith and Karnes. I should not want any one of them to send his bullet at me." "Jim Bowie is best with the knife," said the Ring Tailed Panther, "but I guess no better shots than 'Deaf' Smith and Hank Karnes were ever born."
He was a fighter, in defence of his rights or the rights of others; but his bravery did not depend upon "bowie-knife" or such weapon. "No; you stay here, Jim, and boss matters. I'll go," spoke his brother Rezin. Rezin Bowie was like him in manner, but of slightly heavier build. "I'm with you," said Dave Buchanan. "Go ahead, then. We'll cover you.
Unable to walk, he had received at his request two pistols, and now he was firing them as fast as he could pull the triggers and reload. "Shoot him! Shoot him at once!" cried Urrea. His own pistol was empty now, but a dozen musket balls were fired into the room. Bowie, hit twice, nevertheless raised himself upon his elbow, aimed a pistol with a clear eye and a steady hand, and pulled the trigger.
From many windows he saw the triumphant faces of Mexicans looking out, but he paid no attention to them. He thought alone of the Texans, who were now displaying the greatest energy. In the face of the imminent and deadly peril Travis, Crockett, Bowie and the others were cool and were acting with rapidity.
They were whole-souled, as it is called, to the core, and they wanted everybody else to be so, too. It was growing dark when Bowie called a halt on the edge of a small clearing leading up to a hill thickly overgrown with scrub pines. "We must be careful here, men," he said. "They may be scattered along yonder timber belt, watching for us to uncover ourselves.
"You get your money at the camp and bring that here, too." Allee light, Misler Outlaw, replied Hop. "You will havee um cigar?" He tendered one and, taking it, the outlaw looked at it suspiciously and then cut off the end with his bowie knife. Hop lighted one, too, and then he stood still. "Me allee samee forgittee whattee you say," he said, as he looked puzzled. Cap Roche went over it again.
He devised "Fairview" to his son-in-law and the latter's children, and it ultimately became the property of his grandson, afterward known as Col. Governor Bowie was always identified with the Democratic Party. "Parson" Williams' wife, Amelia Addison Williams died August 9, 1928, at the age of 94 years. The aged negro is the father of 14 children, one still living, Mrs.
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