In this installment of William Broyles and Stephen Harrigan’s serialized novel, Jim Bowie’s young ward unwillingly misses the ...

A long cavalcade of wagons, teams and broken regiments of troops streamed down the old Southwest Trail, exiting the state capitol. September 10, 1863 was less than an auspicious day for the state and ...

Bowie knife forging. Make a knife from a spring ... as boxer dog gets the zoomies Archaeologists Found a Secret Stash of Gold ...

More than 180 years after his death, the mention of Jim Bowie still stirs the imagination of admirers around the world. But Bowie was more than just the knife or the battle at the Alamo. Overall, it ...

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 ...

Watch as we transform an old rusty spring into a sharp Bowie knife! Follow along as we take you through the process of making ...

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 ...

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 ...