Bowie: A Novel - Hardcover

Eickhoff, Randy Lee; Lewis, Leonard C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312866194 ISBN 13: 9780312866198

Publisher: Forge, 1998

Synopsis

Jim Bowie, the descendant of Highland Scots, grew up riding alligators and working the fields on the Texas frontier. Taught three languages and a sense of honor, he went on to live a life filled with brawls and battles, loves and losses. This is his story, as told by those who, whether they loved or hated him, were united by a sense of awe toward this amazing frontiersman.
From Bowie's childhood exploits, which included hunting wild cattle with only a rope and knife, to his lustful adventures with Annie Christmas, a six-foot-tall frontier madam who loved him during his wild years as a young man, this enigmatic hero comes of age before our eyes. From the harrowing tale of why and how the Bowie knife came to be to the five-day battle Bowie and a few friends fought against several hundred mounted Apache, this story charts the making of a true American legend. Jim Bowie remained a fearless if elusive figure up until his final battle at the Alamo in 1836. Now light is finally cast on the man behind the myth, a man at once dauntless and humble.

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Review:

"A stunning novel about Jim Bowie."--"Amarillo Globe-News" "An interesting blend of fact, lore, and legend combined t piant a verbal picture of Bowie as he might have been."-"-Ocala Star Banner"

About the Author:

Randy Lee Eickhoff holds several graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Classics. He lives in El Paso, Texas where he works on translations in several languages, poetry, plays, and novels of which two have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His translation of Ireland's national epic is now a text in not only schools in the United States, but countries overseas as well. His nonfiction work on the Tigua Indians, Exiled, won the Southwest History Award. He has been inducted into the Paso Del Norte Writers Hall of Fame, the local chapter of the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters. He spends his time in El Paso, Ireland, and Italy, lecturing on Dante and The Ulster Cycle.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0312866194
• ISBN 13: 9780312866198
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304