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A DUTCHMAN CONTEMPLATES HIS PILGRIMAGES TO SPAIN
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"Roads to Santiago," by the Dutch author Cees Nooteboom, belongs
in the charmed circle of notable books about Spain written by non-
Spaniards (where it joins works by Gerald Brenan, Norman Lewis,
Patrick Leigh Fermor). It is a remarkable distillation of literature,
art, politics, landscape, personal history, and meditations on time,
death, and eternity -- and in the midst of its 25 essays is an entire
chapter devoted to Walter Muir Whitehill.
Whitehill was the mid-century director of the Boston Athenaeum,
best known for his Boston-related works. But he also published a
landmark volume on ...
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Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis
Magazine article from: Montana; The Magazine of Western History
; ...Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis...p. 6). Men like Bowie were close behind, ready...portraits, especially of Bowie, the shameless swindler...Author Affiliation] James E. Crisp North Carolina...
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[ James Bowie ]
Newspaper article from: The Topeka
; ...myself, "Why?" You can only stay out so long with these types of calls. Then it's like you're riding your horse backward up Happy Hollow Road --- and who wants to do that? James L. Bowie drives a cab for Capitol City Taxi in Topeka.
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 "Monitor (McAllen, TX)")
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Puppy Love -- James Bowie Elementary Students Learn About Taking Care Of Animals.
Newspaper article from: Monitor (McAllen, TX)
; ...they don't know what it's really about," Mendiola, 10, said. The 10-year-old fifth-grader at PSJA's James Bowie Elementary was at the Upper Valley Humane Society with 21 classmates to learn about taking care of animals. Their teacher...
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CBC Chair Sets Agenda For 1999: Rep. James Clyburn Tells Bowie State
Newspaper article from: Sacramento Observer
; ...Chair Sets Agenda For 1999: Rep. James Clyburn Tells Bowie State Graduates The Challenge For Equality Continues Representative James Clyburn (D-S.C.), at the recent commencement exercises for Bowie State in Maryland, told graduates...
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 "Field & Stream (West ed.)")
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Legend Of The Bowie: THE STORY OF AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS, DEADLY, AND MYSTERIOUS KNIFE.
Magazine article from: Field & Stream (West ed.)
; ...silhouette. Odd to think, then, that James Bowie, famed Indian fighter, Alamo...speculator, and Louisiana planter named James Bowie. Maddox and Wells stood eight...Bladesmith Society and author of James Bowie and the Sandbar Fight. At the...
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Remembering Jazz Trumpeter Lester Bowie
Transcript from: NPR Fresh Air
; ...such performers as James Carter and members...was co-founded by Bowie more than 40 years...of laughter) Mr. BOWIE: I was scared...Well you mentioned James Brown; you do...chose that one? Mr. BOWIE: James Brown has been one...
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The Bowie Knife: Unsheathing an American Legend
Magazine article from: Journal of American Folklore
; The Bowie Knife: Unsheathing an American Legend. By Norm Flayderman. Fwd. by James S. Hutchins. (Lincoln, R.I...of legends surrounding blacksmiths James Black and James and Rezin Bowie in particular. Flayderman's connections...
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The American Exalibur: Jim Bowie's lethal legacy.
Magazine article from: Guns Magazine
; ...historians like to force James Bowie into a mold of a different...enterprise paved the way for James Bowie's emergence as an American celebrity. Bowie got crosswise with one...Brother Rezin, wanting James to be properly accoutered...
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Scary monsters: taming the techniques of Bowie's axmen.(guitarists who have played with David Bowie)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Guitar Player
; ...were the real glue in any great Bowie tune, like this "Rebel Rebel...tone. By the time he joined Bowie for 1974's Young Americans...having toured and recorded with James Brown, Ben E. King, Wilson...the next ten years working as Bowie's right-hand man and arranger...
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BOWIE DELIVERS THE GOODS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...make me break down and cry?" Bowie sliced the line in half, halted...slow, sad blues boogie, and Bowie went on to rap about his geeky...singers from Ray Charles to James Brown (including a Brown...convoluted save. In the same song, Bowie edited the line about remembering...
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