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 ...
In the early 1800s, Jim Bowie engaged in a violent riverbed brawl. Unbeknownst to him, that fight would change the trajectory of knifemaking history forever. The knife he used, which bears his name to ...