James Cloyd Bowman was an American teacher and author primarily of children's books, college text books and journals. Born in Leipsic, Ohio

Leipsic, Ohio

Leipsic is a village in Putnam County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,236 at the 2000 census.-History:Leipsic was platted in 1857....

. Bowman grew up in Ohio and attended Ohio Northern University

Ohio Northern University

Ohio Northern University is a private, United Methodist Church-affiliated university located in the United States in Ada, Ohio, founded by Henry Solomon Lehr in 1871. ONU is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. ONU is a sister...

 (B.S. 1905) with graduate studies at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 (A.M. 1910). He taught English at Iowa State College (now Iowa State University of Science and Technology), and then at Northern State Teachers College (now Northern Michigan University

Northern Michigan University

Northern Michigan University is a four-year college public university established in 1899 located in Marquette, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. With a population of nearly 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students, Northern Michigan University is the Upper Peninsula's largest...

) at Marquette, MI, where he was chair of the English department from 1921-39.

Bowman received a Newbery Honor in 1938 for Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time about the "legend"

Fakelore

Fakelore or Pseudo-folklore is inauthentic, manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional. The term can refer to new stories or songs made up, or to folklore that is reworked and modified for modern tastes...

 of Pecos Bill

Pecos Bill

Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona. Their stories were probably invented into short stories and book by Edward O'Reilly in the...

. In 1958 Pecos Bill won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

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.

Works

Adult

• Into the Depths, University Press, 1905.
• The Gift of White Roses, 3rd revised edition, Pilgrim Press, 1914.
• Essays for College English, Heath, first series, 1915, second series, 1918. Editor with Louis I. Bredvold.
• The Promise of Country Life (short stories), Heath, 1916. As editor.
• An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey (by Robert Louis Stevenson), Allyn and Bacon, 1918 and 1922. Editor.
• On the Des Moines (poems), Cornhill, 1921.
• Composition and Selected Essays for Normal Schools and Colleges, Harcourt, 1923. With J. Lawrence Eason.
• Contemporary American Criticism, Henry Holt, 1926. Editor.

Juvenile

• The Knight of the Chinese Dragon, Pfeifer Press, 1913.
• The Adventures of Paul Bunyan
  Paul Bunyan
  Paul Bunyan is a lumberjack figure in North American folklore and tradition. One of the most famous and popular North American folklore heroes, he is usually described as a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, and is often accompanied in stories by his animal companion, Babe the Blue...
  
  , Century, 1927.
• Tales From a Finnish Tupa (folk tales), translated by Aili Kolehmainen, Whitman, 1936 (published in England as Tales From a Finnish Fireside, Chatto & Windus, 1975). Compiler with Margery Bianco.
• Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time, Whitman 1937, reprinted 1972, reprinted 2007 (ISBN 1-59017-224-8)
• Mystery Mountain, Whitman, 1940. A collaboration with Bowman's daughter and her playmates.
• Winabojo: Master of Life, Whitman, 1941.
• John Henry: The Rambling Black Ulysses, Whitman, 1942.
• Mike Fink: Snapping Turtle of the O-hi-o-o, Snag of the Mas-sa-sip, Little, Brown, 1957.
• Seven Silly Wise Men (excerpts from Tales From a Finnish Tupa), Whitman, 1965. With Margery Bianco.
• Who Was Tricked? (excerpts from Tales From a Finnish Tupa), Whitman, 1966. With Margery Bianco.

Sources

• Bowman, James Cloyd. (2006). In Britannica Student Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 31, 2006, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
• Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006. (subscription), Document Number: H1000010956.
• James Cloyd Bowman (1915). Essays for College English, via Google Books.