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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.