I inherited a Bowie knife from my father. He taught me how to thow so that it would stick in a tree.
Bowie Knife is a fighting knife created by James Black
I didn't know that. It is a well made knife, since you can not only cut with it, but throw it.
his knives.
With no solid definition and conflicting accounts of knife history, many were credited with the invention or improvement of the blade.
Origin and description.
The historical Bowie knife was not a single design, but was a series of knives improved several times by Jim Bowie over the years. The earliest such knife, made by Jesse Clift at Bowie's brother Rezin's request resembled Spanish hunting knives of the day, and differed little from a common butcher knife. The blade, as later described by Rezin
a marvel! How can it be that my knife is missing when there are only three of us here?"
The highlander does not reply but, while turning to leave, the lost knife falls from a fold of his plaid.
Saint Peter reprimands him. "You will never do well. You, new-made, so soon turning to theft."
The highlander is unrepentant. The poem ends with him swearing an oath upon a nearby church. "As long as I may find goods to