In the early 1800s, several knife makers began making knives and calling them Bowie knives, but their designs varied. In fact, no one truly knows what Jim Bowie’s knife looked like, but what we know ...

Bowie knives were everywhere, and demand was high, that is, until the Civil War came to a close. Americans had enough bloodshed, and the Bowie knife was considered a fighting knife. Part of the reason ...

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 Mississippi River sandbar near Natchez, ...

Bowie knives are back in constitutional law news these days, after a very long absence. The U.S. Supreme Court's Bruen decision instructs lower courts to look to U.S. legal history to see what ...

The Bowie knife, “a weapon whose fame will descend into posterity,” was presented to Campbell by his grandmother and Barrera’s widow, Antonia, as a gift for Christmas 1884, says the San ...

Bowie knife and sheath as pictured in mid-1800s, when the world famous, Louisiana born weaponhelped carve new North American frontiers. The knife was invented by Rezin Bowie and made famous by his ...

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 his name to ...

Bowie knife and sheath as pictured in mid-1800s, when the world famous, Louisiana born weaponhelped carve new North American frontiers. The knife was invented by Rezin Bowie and made famous by his ...

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 ...

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