Show FoJt Fo- Whom the tee f Army Camps W Were re Naine Jamed CAMP BOWIE FORT WORTH TEX Of all the pioneers who won renown re renown renown re- re in early American days none holds a higher place than James Bowie He is known to every boy boyas as the man who invented the Bowie knife The student of history remembers remembers re- re members him as the last man to die diem in m the massacre of the Alamo Now his name has been conferred upon the army camp at Fort Tort Worth Tex Camp Bowie is the base of the Thirty Thirty sixth sixth division made up of Texas and Okla- Okla homa Noma troops I Bowie was a Georgian born in m 1795 He pushed westward at an early age living in Tennessee Mississippi l and Louisiana Between Bowie and his brother Rezin there existed a d de devotion de- de that made them famous along the frontier Both became known as intrepid pid hunters explorers and In Indian Indian In- In dian fighters Having need of n a large strong knife Bowie took a file and had bad a blacksmith fas fashion ion it into a knife with a blade on one side only and a curved point Instantly it was adopted by other frontiersmen and to this day the Bowie knife is the dependence of every hunter The stories about Bowies Bowie's chivalry and courage are almost as numerous as the old legends of Roland and Bayard Bay- Bay ard He was ever a defender of the i I weak protector of women women and friend friend- of the needy The closing episode of Bowies Bowie's life Ufe never can be forgotten He lie was penned in the Alamo with the scanty force of Texans who held it against a Mexican horde With him were the noted leaders Davy Crockett and William B n. Travis A few days before before before be be- fore the siege began Bowie fell ill ill of pneumonia Throughout t the fighting fighting fighting fight fight- ing he was unable to leave his bed By turns he was conscious and unconscious un tin- conscious At last the Mexicans broke through driving before them the few survivors One by one the heroic band of men fell dead At AtI I last none remained alive but Bowie He lay on en a cot in the farthest cor cor- corner corner corner I ner of the Alamo There the Mexicans Mexicans cans found him I His head was clear now and in his hands rested a m musket masket From behind behind behind be be- be I hind the barrel of that musket looked looked- the feverish eyes of Bowie Alone and near death he held the Mexicans at bay Every man vho who stowed snowed himself himself himself him him- self was killed They called on Bowie to surrender He told them to come and take him There was a fin final l rusl rusland and a mass of the invaders fell upon Bowie lying on his coat with a Bowie knife in his liana hand and fighting fight fight- j I ing to the last gasp I 1917 1317 1 by Iho tho Pre Ire s c hn g Co T The Tle e I Te New 1 York ork III |