And through a mix of American and Mexican knife styles, the Bowie knife was born—a large, ... Length: 15.15 inches. Blade Thickness: 0.27 inches. Materials: VG10W steel and stacked leather handle.

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 Mississippi River sandbar near Natchez, Mississippi ...

Said to be “the original knife of (Texian Army) Col. James Bowie,” it was described by the Light as having a curved blade, being 15 inches long and 1½ inches wide, “and is sharpened to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Bowie knife style, known as the grandfather of fighting knives, typically makes for a huge, ... However, this knife is not a chunky chopper — it’s much more discreet and easy to carry. The 14C28N ...

Mark Zalesky, publisher of Knife Magazine, explained in Nov. 10 and 19 emails to me: "The idea of the 'Arkansas toothpick' being a large dagger seems to stem from Raymond Thorp's 1948 book Bowie ...

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 ...