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 ...

It’s a big and impractical knife by today’s standards, but at one point, the Bowie was America’s quintessential outdoor knife. Arguably the first standardized knife design, the original Bowie was ...

Bowie knife and sheath as pictured in mid-1800s, when the world famous, Louisiana born weaponhelped carve new North American frontiers. The knife was invented by Rezin Bowie and made famous by his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Steelport Knife Co.’s new 6-inch chef model borrows aspects of a santoku. By Florence Fabricant Steelport Knife Company in Portland, Ore., a maker of American-forged carbon steel cutlery that started ...