The Bowie knife is truly America’s knife. There are towns named after it, and it’s namesake, it’s Arkansas’ official state knife, it has appeared in iconic movies, and a variation of the classic ...

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 ...

David Bowie fans are just realizing what his real name is and why he felt the need to change it when he stepped into showbiz ...

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If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more 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.

Learn more In the early 1800s, Jim Bowie engaged in a violent riverbed brawl. Unbeknownst to him, that fight would change the trajectory of knifemaking history forever. The knife he used, which bears ...

claimed he made the first Bowie knife while the Bowie family lived in Avoyelles Parish, La. He designed it as a hunting knife and gave it to Jim after he had been shot in a fight. But the man who ...

But reader Belinda Molina Yndo also asked for more information about a Bowie knife passed down by Agustin Barrera (1803-1883) to his grandson, Dr. Charles Augustus Rosenheimer Campbell ...

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 ...

It's been said that the Bowie knife was created in Holmesville. It's also been said it was created by a blacksmith in Abbeville. Even so, Monty McNutt's Curious Louisiana question is about about ...