 Gow was also featured in some of the writings of George Mackay Brown.In the late nineteenth century Gilbert and Sullivan adapted the story for their comical operetta The Pirates of Penzance, changing the setting from Orkney to the coast of Cornwall in the reign of Queen Victoria.The factual account of the capture of Gow was featured in the book The Real Captain Cleveland by a distant relative of the pirate catcher named Allan FEA (1860-1956), and published by Secker, London, in 1912.