Bowie, Texas, proudly showcases the World’s Largest Bowie Knife, a stunning 20-foot monument celebrating frontier history and ...

Few people realize that the family of James, or Jim, Bowie, who made the Bowie Knife famous and later died at The Alamo, ...

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, it ...

A long cavalcade of wagons, teams and broken regiments of troops streamed down the old Southwest Trail, exiting the state capitol. September 10, 1863 was less than an auspicious day for the state and ...

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 ...

Dive into the fascinating world of knife making as we transform an old saw into a stunning Bowie knife in this detailed tutorial. Watch as each step unfolds, from selecting the right materials to ...

As we’ve documented on these pages before, the Bowie knife — made famous by James “Jim” Bowie on a Mississippi sandbar in 1827 — is about as American as a knife can get. Though the fighting knife ...

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 ...