The Legendary Jim Bowie and His Knife

      The Bowie knife was made famous by Colonel Jim Bowie during the Sandbar Fight of 1827 in Mississippi. In this duel Bowie was severely injured but managed to make it out alive due to his knife that was specifically made for him. Bowie earned quite the reputation for his knife fights and in 1829 spared an opponet's life in a fight. After recovering the man hired three assassins to kill Bowie. In December of 1830, Jim Bowie presented a wooden carved knife model to an Arkansas blacksmith named James Black. Black made Bowie's knife as well as a modified one with a sharpened edge on both sides of the blades curve. The double edged knife became so popular in Sheffield, England, who began mass-producing in by 1850, that it was named the Sheffield Bowie knife. Upon his return to Texas Colonel Bowie was met by the three assasins in 1831. Although the assasins had firearms, Bowie still defeated them all with his knife building his and his knife's fame even more. He later became an American legend after dying at the Battle the Alamo in 1836. Long after his death, his legacy lives on and so does his knife, however; nobody knows what happened to the original knife. In the Historic Arkansas Museum there is a knife with the engraving "Bowie No. 1" but scientists have no way of proving if it is the original.

Colt .45 Bowie Knife, CT306DM, Damascus Blade