Rumors fly about this, but a Bowie knife attributed to Jim Bowie’s big brother, Rezin Bowie, was donated to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame Museum. Whether this is the exact Bowie Jim used in the ...

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.

demand for the Bowie-style knife increased exponentially. In 1830, Bowie moved his land-speculating enterprise to Texas. He married into one of the most powerful Texas families and earned a ...