In this installment of William Broyles and Stephen Harrigan’s serialized novel, a mysterious Mexican aristocrat bids against Buffalo Bill and the vampire Erzsebet for Jim Bowie's knife.

Which bowie knife is best? Although the bowie knife has made a big name for itself in Wild West lore, video games and action movies, its real home is in every hunter or adventurer’s toolkit. Since it ...

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 ...

Texas historians have written volumes about Jim Bowie, who died at the Alamo, but what people remember most about him is a big hunting blade he carried — a weapon known in history simply as the Bowie ...

LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas can claim to be the home state of one of the most legendary blacksmiths in American history - James Black, the maker of a famed fighting knife for Jim Bowie. While working as a ...

It’s a lesser-known detail in the canon of horror literature that in Bram Stoker’s original telling, it was a Texan who finally managed to kill Count Dracula. Quincey P. Morris is a minor character in ...

AUSTIN – If Jim Bowie lived in mid-19th century Texas and the 160-plus years since, he'd have had to leave his legendary double-edged knife tucked away at home, or at least stowed somewhere safe. But ...

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