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Upon contracting yellow fever in 1833, Bowie had access to medicinal plants and herbs which may have aided in his recuperation and provided a false sense of recovery. While confined at the Alamo compound, he and his peers had access to only sparse amounts of food and what was available held little nutritional value or healing qualities. The combination of his noted binge drinking, the breeding well for mosquitoes and the sources from which they derived the disease ——— slaves ——— the setting was ideal for Bowie to contract yellow fever a second time.<ref>CDC, ''Yellow Fever Transmission.'' Africans had acquired immunity to yellow fever, thus making them carriers of the disease. Travis’ slave, “Joe” was present inside the Alamo and was likely a carrier. The process of transmission is as follows; a mosquito bites a carrier and contracts the virus then transmits the disease to someone without immunity through biting.</ref> The reports are conflicting as to the events surrounding Bowie’s death, but all concur with regards to the symptoms he was presenting.

== Accounts of Death ==