Said to be “the original knife of (Texian Army) Col. James Bowie,” it was described by the Light as having a curved blade, being 15 inches long and 1½ inches wide, “and is sharpened to a ...

Check out Joel Bohy's appraisal of a USCT sergeant's confederate bowie knife, ca. 1864 ... and became a part of the, the Army there. I think I've got it, maybe, the last ten years.

The old knife with the scratched blade and the cracked wooden handle stared down the Mexican army at the Battle of San Jacinto, but a family feud proved too much for it. The Bowie knife that Gen.

Rivas testified about early regulations in the 1800s that prohibited bowie knives (long blades that curved and became double-edged near the tip); multiple states that regulated firearm transfers ...

Jim Bowie is having a moment. Why? It's his birthday. He was born on this date in Kentucky in 1796. The famed knife fighter, land speculator, slave trader and Texas revolutionary died at the Alamo ...