Jim Boe and the Sandbar Fight

Big jim boe in conveying smuggled slaves armed himself with three or four knives so that he could transfixed any captive who tried to break away jerking a knife out was easier than reloading a horse pistol at the muzzle both jim and resin could keep several knives moving in the air at the same time without allowing one to touch the ground at 20 paces either gets into knife clean through a small wooden target. The reason that he got this reputation for being an artist with a knife is because of something that happened in 1827 the infamous sandbar fight in Gulf of Mexico.