High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Joe Bowman, born Joseph Lee Bowman (April 12, 1925 – June 29, 2009), was a Houston bootmaker and marksman called "The Straight Shooter", considered to have been a guardian of Texas and western frontier culture. Shortly after his death, Bowman was inducted posthumously into the Texas Heroes Hall of Honor at the Frontier Times Museum in Bandera, along with museum founder J. Marvin Hunter and folklorist J. Frank Dobie.