![]() ![]() ![]() He won renown of sorts as a duelist his famous knife-“the iron mistress”-served him well, but romance caught him unaware and hurt him to the core. Bowie, fresh from the untutored bayous, found New Orleans and particularly its women, tempting and alluring and defeating. From the time of his youthful invasion of the effete city of New Orleans, still much more French and Spanish than American in 1817, to his death in the Alamo in 1836, his was a life teaming, with the spirit and mood of a frontier region. America, biography, fiction, historical, Mexico, film/TV adaptationĪ quite extraordinary piece of historical recreation in a biographical novel based on the life of Jim Bowie, whose name has been immortalized in the “bowie knife”.
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