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 ...

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 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 ...

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