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 been said that the Bowie knife was created in Holmesville. It's also been said it was created by a blacksmith in Abbeville. Even so, Monty McNutt's Curious Louisiana question is about about Jim ...
The Knife Gallery, one of Historic Arkansas Museum's most popular exhibits, has opened again after a three-year closing to update its displays focused on Bowie knives, also known in the frontier era ...