Which bowie knife is best? Although the bowie knife has made a big name for itself in Wild West lore, video games and action movies, its real home is in every hunter or adventurer’s toolkit. Since it ...

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 ...

In the early 1800s, Jim Bowie engaged in a violent riverbed brawl. Unbeknownst to him, that fight would change the trajectory of knifemaking history forever. The knife he used, which bears his name to ...

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 ...

It's been said that the Bowie knife was created in Holmesville. It's also been said it was created by a blacksmith in Abbeville. Even so, Monty McNutt's Curious Louisiana question is about about Jim ...

A Bowie knife is a popular selection for those who need versatility in an outdoors knife. It works as a self-defense blade, but it also has plenty of other potential uses for campers and hunters. The ...