He had been given his first “Bowie” knife — a long-handled, fixed-blade hunting knife — in time to have used it in his 1827 duel with Louisiana Sheriff Norris Wright. Advertisement.

Blacksmith Jesse Clifft likely made Bowie’s original Sandbar Fight knife in Louisiana. It was supposedly commissioned by Bowie’s brother Rezin. There are differing accounts and claims about who made ...

Created in the 19th century by master knife maker Jim Bowie, the first bowie knives were built for hand-to-hand combat. Bowie made a buzz around his knife build in 1827 when he used the knife in ...

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 ...

According to Zalesky, "we first see the term 'Bowie knife' beginning to come into use in 1835 and by mid-1836 it was everywhere. It is clear that such knives existed before the term for them ...

How to Choose the Right Bowie Knife. As with any knife, the first thing to look at when you’re buying a Bowie is what your intended use will be. If you love the Bowie style and look, and you expect a ...

More than 180 years after his death, the mention of Jim Bowie still stirs the imagination of admirers around the world. But Bowie was more than just the knife or the battle at the Alamo. Overall ...

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 ...

First, Bowie knives look cool, but they serve many functions. Most unique, perhaps, is you can be using the knife to open a package of bacon one minute, and then the next, be whittling away at ...