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When the Political Gets Personal Veteran Austin journalist Bill Minutaglio’s latest book is a crowd-pleasing account of heated political battles in Texas over the past 150 years. But does it get the big picture right? Illustration by Katherine Lam Texans take a singular pride in their state’s politics. Where else can one find such entertaining grandiosity, unpredictability, and sprawling variety in one place? Pretty much nowhere, as the veteran Austin journalist Bill Minutaglio knows. His tenth and latest book , A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles: A History of Politics and Race in Texas (...

True West Magazine Several movies were made in the 1950s, about the Alamo and Jim Bowie. The lyrics of a popular song were, “What a Man was six feet six Jim Bowie, Big Jim Bowie….” But in reality, Jim Bowie was “only” six feet tall. Still that was pretty tall for his day. With that nine and a quarter-inch knife in his hand he must have looked six feet six. The man who played him in the popular movie, “The Iron Mistress” was five feet six, Alan Ladd. The legendary Jim Bowie had several knives over his life. In his day a knife was a man’s favorite sidearm. One didn’t have to p...

DR. KEN BRIDGES More than 180 years after his death, the mention of Jim Bowie still stirs the imagination of admirers around the world.  But Bowie was more than just the knife or the battle at the Alamo.  Overall, it was a remarkable and colorful life of adventure. James Bowie was born in 1796 in rural southwestern Kentucky.  He was one of 10 children.  When he was 4, the family moved to Missouri before moving to Louisiana two years later.  Along the way, all the Bowie children worked hard to build and run the family farms.  As little formal education was available, they were ...