A Bowie knife is a popular selection for those who need versatility in an outdoors knife. It works as a self-defense blade, but it also has plenty of other potential uses for campers and hunters. The ...

What’s more American than apple pie and baseball? A Bowie knife, of course. The Bowie knife was made famous on September 19, 1827, during an epic knife and gun fight that followed a formal duel on a ...

It’s 1827. Jim Bowie, a frontiersman, illegal slave trader, and real-estate scammer, is in a fight to the death on an island in the Mississippi River. Several of his rivals have attacked him with cane ...

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As we’ve documented on these pages before, the Bowie knife — made famous by James “Jim” Bowie on a Mississippi sandbar in 1827 — is about as American as a knife can get. Though the fighting knife ...

As I learned from one of my favorite podcasts, The Dollop, several years back, the story of the Bowie knife is rife with murky details. What we do know is that a large fixed-blade knife with a ...

The old knife with the scratched blade and the cracked wooden handle stared down the Mexican army at the Battle of San Jacinto, but a family feud proved too much for it. The Bowie knife that Gen. Sam ...

Texas historians have written volumes about Jim Bowie, who died at the Alamo, but what people remember most about him is a big hunting blade he carried — a weapon known in history simply as the Bowie ...

Kemp Center for the Arts hosted local artist Albert Schlabs, creator of the Guinness World Record largest Bowie knife, for an in-depth presentation on the process behind the landmark knife’s creation.

As a fearsome weapon, the Bowie knife recently donated to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum speaks for itself. It is 17 inches long, with a bison horn hilt and a sturdy high carbon steel blade ...