Editing Bowie, Texas (section)

==History==
On July 22, 1881, Bowie was incorporated as a town in [[Montague County, Texas|Montague County]], United States. (A separate [[Bowie County, Texas|Bowie County]] includes [[Texarkana, Texas|Texarkana]] in northeastern Texas.) The town began to expand with the arrival of the [[Fort Worth and Denver Railway]] in 1882.{{sfn|Minor|2012}}  In 1884, four men robbed the First National Bank of Bowie and allegedly left with over $10,000 in gold coins. Townspeople gave chase and eventually captured the robbers, who were [[Hanging|hanged]] for their crimes.{{sfn|Jameson|1991|}} By 1913, the town had a population of more than 5,000, and included the Bowie Commercial College.{{sfn|Potter|1913|p=182}}

[[List of United States presidents|U.S. President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] visited the town on his train on July 11, 1938.  He ceremonially purchased biscuits from businessman [[Amon G. Carter]] of [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]], who had grown up in Bowie.{{sfn|Roosevelt|1938}}  On August 19, 1941, Rex Beard, Jr., robbed the First National Bank of Bowie and was captured in December of that same year.{{sfn|Brown|2009}}
An EF1 tornado hit the town of Bowie on May 22, 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ArcGIS Web Application |url=https://apps.dat.noaa.gov/StormDamage/DamageViewer/ |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=apps.dat.noaa.gov}}</ref> On [[Tornado outbreak of March 21–23, 2022|March 21, 2022]], two EF1 tornadoes hit the town.<ref>{{Cite web |last=By |first=daryl herzmann |title=IEM :: PNS from NWS FWD |url=https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.php?pil=PNSFWD&e=202203230254 |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=mesonet.agron.iastate.edu |language=en}}</ref>