In a town named after Jim Bowie ... knife, which stands at an angle on a 3-foot high base, is designed to withstand winds up to 90 mph and an inch of ice, both of which are fairly common in North ...

WACO, Texas (AP) — As a fearsome weapon, the Bowie knife recently donated to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum speaks for itself. The Waco Tribune-Herald reports it is 17 inches long ...

BOWIE, Texas, April 8 (UPI) --A small town in Texas has constructed a record-breaking monument -- the world's largest Bowie Knife. The town of Bowie, Texas, which -- like the knife -- was named ...

As a fearsome weapon, the Bowie knife recently donated to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum speaks for itself. It is 17 inches long, with a bison horn hilt and a sturdy high carbon steel ...

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 ...

But that knife was made by the blacksmith at the Bowie family’s Louisiana plantation, according to the Bullock Texas State History Museum’s website, www.thestoryoftexas.org. Most biographies ...

Texas named a city and county after him. There’s also a school in Austin and El Paso named James Bowie High School. He’s also credited alongside his brothers for the knife we call the Bowie knife.

As for the birthplace of the Bowie knife, Willis looked to the Texas Historical Association, which places the Bowie brothers in Avoyelles Parish at the time Rezin created it. "(Rezin Bowie ...

Jim Bowie moved into Texas in 1830 to snap up land grants from the Mexican government and hunt for gold. During the Texas Revolution in 1835-36, he won lasting fame as a military leader, dying in ...

WACO, Texas (AP) - As a fearsome weapon, the Bowie knife recently donated to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum speaks for itself. The Waco Tribune-Herald reports it is 17 inches long ...