James Bowie

James Bowie is represented in the linked historical fiction and non-fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

John Jakes’s The Furies places James Bowie within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and empire, conquest and resistance.

In non-fiction, James Bowie is discussed in Manolo Palomares’s The Texas War. In Manolo Palomares’s The Texas War, the account 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.