Best Historical Novels About James Bowie

James Bowie

James Bowie was an American frontiersman, land speculator and adventurer who became famous in the Southwest for violent encounters associated with the large knife that bears his name. He moved into Mexican Texas and married into a prominent Tejano family.

During the Texas Revolution Bowie joined the rebel forces and became one of the commanders at the Alamo in San Antonio. Seriously ill during the final siege, he was killed when Santa Anna’s army stormed the mission on 6 March 1836.

Manolo Palomares’ The Texas War follows Mexican operations around Béxar and the assault on the Alamo while providing a contrasting perspective on Antonio López de Santa Anna, William B. Travis, James Bowie and Davy Crockett. Further fictional perspectives on James Bowie can be found in John Jakes’ The Furies.

Historical novels and book series featuring James Bowie (1 series)

The Kent Family Chronicles in Order

by John Jakes 8 books 4.2(89,573)

The Kent Family Chronicles trace successive generations of one family from the eve of the American Revolution to the early 1890s. The saga begins with Phillipe Charboneau, the unrecognised son of an English duke, who becomes Philip Kent in America, and follows his descendants as they build, lose…