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Post by Wade Dillon on Dec 16, 2008 1:14:17 GMT -5
Hello everyone,
While researching for my graphic novel, I got curious about the possible animosity between William Barret Travis and compound engineer, Green B. Jameson. A few years prior, Jameson lost a lawsuit to one of Travis's clients, owing him $50 dollars. The only reference I've read to this is in Exploring The Alamo Legends by Wallace O. Chariton, but I checked and found he provided no sources for this. I don't believe I missed it. Even William C. Davis doesn't approach the possible conflict in Three Roads to The Alamo. So, my question is, where did this story originate and what is the entire story behind it?
Thank you, gentlemen!
~Wade
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Post by Jim Boylston on Dec 16, 2008 9:16:39 GMT -5
It might be from Travis' "diary". I don't have a copy, but it's primarily a ledger of expenditures, lawsuits he was working on and, occasionally, remarks about his sexual exploits. Jim
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Post by mustanggray on Dec 16, 2008 9:53:38 GMT -5
October 1833-
"Recd of Adam Laurence for collection a note of bond on Green B. Jamison for $50---dated Novr. 16th 1830. with instructions to do the best I can with it"
-taken from Diary of William Barret Travis
And if you wanted to go that route, then I believe somewhere in there I read where there were some suits Travis brought against Bowie.
Scott McMahon
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Post by Paul Sylvain on Dec 16, 2008 23:08:44 GMT -5
October 1833- "Recd of Adam Laurence for collection a note of bond on Green B. Jamison for $50---dated Novr. 16th 1830. with instructions to do the best I can with it" -taken from Diary of William Barret Travis And if you wanted to go that route, then I believe somewhere in there I read where there were some suits Travis brought against Bowie. Scott McMahon This is thoroughly fascinating, and all new to me. It adds a Soap Opera element to the characters and their chemistry. If you are right, Scott (about Bowie), it may help explain more fully the animosity between these two me by time they came together at the Alamo. I'd like to hear more. Paul
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Post by Wade Dillon on Dec 17, 2008 0:49:14 GMT -5
Scott and Paul,
My girlfriend Sarah Martin has a copy of the Travis diary. I asked her about what she could find about Bowie and Travis and produced something about a man named L. L. Veeder.
From the Travis diary...
So, Bowie's role was...charity?
Next June, Bowie is mentioned again in another case.
Neither the case of Johnson vs. Bowie & Donoho is mentioned again. I assume Travis represented Johnson?
~Wade
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Post by Paul Sylvain on Dec 18, 2008 18:01:01 GMT -5
What an intriguing line of research. Utterly fascinating.
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Post by stuart on Dec 19, 2008 11:25:58 GMT -5
It is certainly consistent with what else we know about Bowie's "business" dealings, as laid out so well in Davis; to which I'd add that although the apparent animus displayed by Bowie towards Grant was dressed up as being political, it was really bluster to cover the fact that Bowie owed Grant a lot of money and as usual had no intention of paying it back if he could avoid it.
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