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 ...

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Well, it wasn’t really Jim Bowie’s knife, but it looked enough like one for an Alamo curator to put it on display for 10 years.