"Dawn at the Alamo"

ID: 3242
This file appears in: 1869 Cut Off/Bowie Land

The painting “Dawn at the Alamo” hangs in the Texas state Senate.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress

This file appears in: 1869 Cut Off/Bowie Land

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #1947 in Simpson County remembers native son James Bowie, who died at the Alamo in 1836, and that county’s 1869 redrawn boundary with neighboring Logan County. “Remember the…