제임스 부이

소개

제임스 부이(영어: James Bowie, 1796년 4월 10일 - 1836년 3월 6일), 일명 짐 부이(Jim Bowie)는 19세기 불법 노예 무역상, 땅 투기꾼, 군인으로 텍사스 반란에서 활약하다가 알라모 전투에서 전사했다. 켄터키주에서 태어나 텍사스로 이주해 반란에 참여하기 전에는 루이지애나주에서 대부분을 보냈다. 제임스 부이는 부이 나이프 양식으로서 알려진 나이프 휴대로도 유명하다. 제임스 부이의 개척정신 넘치는 이야기로, 제임스 부이는 텍사스사를 장식하는 민중 영웅 중 일인이 되었다.

James Bowie was an American military officer, landowner and slave trader who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. He was among the Americans who died 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 of American culture. Bowie was born on April 10, 1796, in Logan County, Kentucky. He spent most of his life in Louisiana, where he was raised and where he later worked as a land speculator. His rise to fame began in 1827 on reports of the Sandbar Fight near present-day Vidalia, Louisiana. What began as a duel between two other men deteriorated into a mêlée in which Bowie, having been shot and stabbed, killed the sheriff of Rapides Parish with a large knife. This, and other stories of Bowie's prowess with a knife, led to the widespread popularity of the Bowie knife.