Not to rain on anyone's parade, but I would really prefer to see more emphasis placed on history, rather than Alamo movies, for the 175th. In that spirit, and considering that we've now opened a Bowie thread, I've slapped together this strawman Bowie bibliography. Please feel free to add to it:
Jim Bowie Bibliography
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BooksBaugh, Virgil E.
Rendezvous at the Alamo: Highlights in the Lives of Bowie, Crockett, and Travis. New York: Pageant Press, 1960. Early effort to combine short biographies of the three most noted Alamo heroes in a single volume, mixing fiction and fact. Superseded by Davis,
Three Roads to the Alamo.
Davis, William C.
Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis. New York: Harper Collins, 1998. Triple biography of the three iconic Alamo martyrs and, to date, the best overall biography of Bowie, despite some errors, such as the inclusion of the names of fictional characters from novels about Bowie presented as real persons.
Douglas, C. L.
James Bowie: The Life of a Bravo. Dallas: Banks Upshaw and Company, 1944. Partly fictionalized (by use of dialog) biography. Surprisingly, discounts reports that Bowie had any children and notes official records of the deaths of his wife and in-laws, but not of any children.
Edmondson, J. R.
Mr. Bowie with a Knife: A History of the Sandbar Fight. Haltom City, TX: Watkins Printing Services, 1998. Originally published in four parts in
Knife World magazine, October 1995 through January , 1996. The most detailed and thorough account of Bowie’s most famous encounter prior to the Alamo.
Francis, M. E.
Jim Bowie’s Lost Mine. San Antonio, TX: The Naylor Company, 1966. (Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1966; second printing, 1970. Originally published in 1954 as
Bowie’s Lost Mine; second printing, 1958; third printing, 1962).
Hopewell, Clifford.
James Bowie: Texas Fighting Man. Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1994.
Thorp, Raymond W.
Bowie Knife. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1949. Second printing: Phillips Publication, 1991.
FictionBarrett, Monte.
Tempered Blade. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1946. (3 printings; Popular Library paperback edition, August 1950 (abridged); Popular Library paperback edition, Dec. 1957; British edition by Stanley Paul & Co., Ltd.; Spanish edition published by Luis de Caralt). A popular novel based on Bowie’s life, it also was cited as the background source for the television program
The Adventures of Jim Bowie, starring Scott Forbes (1956-58).
Eickhoff, Randy Lee and Lewis, Leonard C.
Bowie: A Novel of the Life of Jim Bowie. New York: Forge, 1998. Fictionalized account of Bowie’s life; also issued in paperback edition with different cover.
Wellman, Paul I.
The Iron Mistress. New York: Doubleday, 1951. Paperback: New York: Pocket Books, Inc., Cardinal Edition, 1953. Perhaps the best-known novel based on Bowie’s life, it was made into a film starring Alan Ladd and Virginia Mayo in 1952.
Children/Young Adult BooksEdmondson, J. R.
Jim Bowie: Frontier Legend, Alamo Hero. New York: Rosen Publishing Group /Powerkids Press, 2003.
Flynn, Jean.
Jim Bowie: A Texas Legend. Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1980.
Garst, Shannon.
James Bowie. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Responsive Environments Corp., 1955. Young adult biography.
Patten, Lewis B.; illustrated by Tony Sgroi.
The Adventures of Jim Bowie. Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, 1958. Children’s fiction based on TV series of the same title. Cover features sketched likeness of series star Scott Forbes and the designation “The Big Little Book - TV Series.”
Winders, Gertrude Hecker.
Jim Bowie: Boy with a Hunting Knife. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1953. Middle-school level bio.
ArticlesArp, Don, Jr. “The Face Behind the Knife: A Study of the James Bowie Portrait Purchased by the Texas Historical Commission and the State Preservation Board.”
Southwestern Historical Quarterly 109, no. 3 (January, 2006): 303–17.
Bryant, John. “A Knife Like Bowie’s.” Alamo de Parras website,
www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/adp/history/bios/bowie/knife_like_bowies.html (March, 2000).
Dane, Jeffrey. “From Melée to Myth: James Bowie and the Sandbar Fight.”
Knife World (March 2010): 5.
Dobie, J. Frank. “Jim Bowie, Big Dealer.”
Southwestern Historical Quarterly 60, no. 3 (January 1957): 337-357.
Dobie, J. Frank. “How Jim Bowie Got His Silver.”
Frontier Times 32, no. 3 (Summer, 1958): 11.
Musso, Joseph. “James Bowie’s Portrait.”
The Alamo News, no. 26 (December 1982): unnumbered pages.
Musso, Joseph. “James Bowie’s Sword.”
The Alamo News, no. 26 (December 1982): unnumbered pages.
Musso, Joseph. Review of
Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barrett Travis by William C. Davis.
The Alamo Journal, no. 110 (September 1998). Addresses Davis’s account of Bowie’s life.
Musso, Joseph. “A Reevaluation of ‘The Face Behind the Knife’.”
Southwestern Historical Quarterly 110, no. 3 (January, 2007): 363-378.
Wiener, Allen J. “Bowie and Crockett B Sitting in Boston.”
The Alamo Journal (June 2007).
Williamson, William R. “James Bowie.” The Handbook of Texas Online,
www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/fbo45.html (July 23, 2002).
Williamson, William R. “Rezin Pleasant Bowie.” The Handbook of Texas Online,
www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/fbo46.html (July 23, 2002).
Williamson, William R. “Bowie Knife.” The Handbook of Texas Online,
www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/lnb1.html (July 23, 2002).
Wiltsey, Norman B. “Hot Blood and Cold Steel: The Story of Jim Bowie.”
Real West 15, no. 105 (June, 1972): 46.
Comic BooksThe Adventures of Jim Bowie. Dell Publishing Co., nos. 893 (1958) & 993 (May-July 1959). Based on the TV series; covers feature color photographs of series star Scott Forbes.