Take on the challenge of crafting the iconic Legionnaire Bowie Knife from The Expendables series. Known for its aggressive design and functionality, this knife has become a standout symbol of power ...

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

VIDALIA, La. (WVUE) - Frontiersman Jim Bowie was born in Kentucky and died in Texas at The Alamo. But he actually became famous during the years he spent growing up, working -- sometimes as a slave ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - It was on a sandbar not far from this spot on the Mississippi River near Vidalia, Louisiana, where frontiersman Jim Bowie made a name for himself and his knife. Born in ...

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 ...

SALADO — Well, it wasn’t really Jim Bowie’s knife, but it looked enough like one for an Alamo curator to put it on display for 10 years. Then, the story goes, U.S. officials found Mexico had the knife ...

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 ...

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 ...