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Y’all ever hear of an event called the Sandbar Fight
Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:29 pm
Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:29 pm
Maybe it’s more known in Louisiana but I’ve never heard of this.
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The Sandbar Fight, also known as the Vidalia Sandbar Fight, was a formal one-on-one duel that erupted into a violent brawl involving multiple combatants on September 19, 1827. It took place on a large sandbar in the Mississippi River, near present-day Vidalia, Louisiana. American pioneer and folk hero Jim Bowie was seriously injured in the fight.[1][2]
This post was edited on 5/6/18 at 9:10 pm
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Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:30 pm to athenslife101
Yes. I heard about it.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:31 pm to athenslife101
Yep. I live here
Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:31 pm to athenslife101
A Sonic was on that sandbar
Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:36 pm to athenslife101
What made the Bowie famous. Happened on Giles island which has now became Mississippi. They used that location because it was a lawless land and was frequently used by others.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:37 pm to athenslife101
Well now we have a-hole. I tried to live my life not hearing it
Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:38 pm to athenslife101
Yes. I won it in 92 and 97.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:41 pm to athenslife101
Thought this thread was about Tiki Tubing. I’m disappointed.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:46 pm to athenslife101
I expected this to be like an annual Prop Stop fundraiser
Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:47 pm to athenslife101
That's the dude who invented the Bowie knife.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:49 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
I’ve seen better duels in the quad
Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:53 pm to athenslife101
Pretty common knowledge in the Natchez/Vidalia area...
Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:56 pm to athenslife101
Jim Bowie shouldn’t mess with Cajun baws
Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:58 pm to athenslife101
It was a fight.
On a sandbar.
JIM Bowie got slumped.
On a sandbar.
JIM Bowie got slumped.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 8:59 pm to athenslife101
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Losuiana
Wow.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 9:04 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
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That's the dude who invented the Bowie knife.
Actually he didn’t invent it. Someone else made it for him after he saw one.
If you want to read a great book with a very good description of the sandbar fight read Lone Star Nation by H.W. Brands about Texas winning its independence.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 9:11 pm to athenslife101
that fight inspired the name of a great English singer:
David Knife
David Knife
Posted on 5/6/18 at 9:11 pm to Jim Rockford
Sonics weren’t around in the early 1800’s fwiw
Posted on 5/6/18 at 9:11 pm to athenslife101
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American pioneer and folk hero Jim Bowie was seriously injured in the fight
I've seen better Bowie's play great ball at Kentucky, then lose a pro career to injury.
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