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 ...

Texas historians have written volumes about Jim Bowie, who died at the Alamo, but what people remember most about him is a big hunting blade he carried — a weapon known in history simply as the Bowie ...

LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas can claim to be the home state of one of the most legendary blacksmiths in American history - James Black, the maker of a famed fighting knife for Jim Bowie. While working as a ...

WACO — As a fearsome weapon, the Bowie knife recently donated to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum speaks for itself. The Waco Tribune-Herald reports it is 17 inches long, with a bison horn ...

Kemp Center for the Arts hosted local artist Albert Schlabs, creator of the Guinness World Record largest Bowie knife, for an in-depth presentation on the process behind the landmark knife’s creation.

In a town named after Jim Bowie, could there be a more appropriate landmark? A giant Bowie knife will be unveiled Thursday in Bowie, a town of about 5,000 residents 70 miles northwest of Fort Worth.

AUSTIN – If Jim Bowie lived in mid-19th century Texas and the 160-plus years since, he'd have had to leave his legendary double-edged knife tucked away at home, or at least stowed somewhere safe. But ...