Jim Bowie, a frontiersman, illegal slave trader, and real-estate scammer ... Before the fight, Bowie's brother gave him a large knife described as being 9.25 inches long, 1.25 inches wide ...
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.
Knife Making - Making a Bowie Knife From an Old Saw ...
One of the most memorable parts of the real-life Bowie was his use of the Bowie knife in the infamous Sandbar fight – although, in the first episode of the TV series, “The Birth of the Blade ...