The 300-year-old Jim Bowie Live Oak grows in Opelousas, Louisiana, at the boyhood home of a pioneering American. Jim Bowie was a hero of the Battle of the Alamo and a legendary adventurer who rode alligators, hunted bears and tamed wild horses. His ingenuity and lusts for adventure typified the American spirit that settled the West. Bowie was most famous for his use of the Bowie Knife, which his brother developed. Acorns from the Jim Bowie Live Oak have grown to produce authentic direct-offspring Jim Bowie trees.