Going shopping for a good bowie knife
addition to various knife manufacturing companies there are hundreds of custom knife makers producing Bowies and variations.
Historical complications.
The early history of the Bowie knife is complicated by murky definitions, limited supporting documentation, and conflicting claims. The Bowie knife is not well defined. By the mid-20th century most would include some combination of blade length and blade shape. In the mid-19th century, when the popularity of the knife was at its peak, the term was applied to a wide range of blades. Absent a consensus definition,
Bowie knife.
One afternoon Rezin was hunting and killed a rabbit. He was going to skin his rabbit when he hit a bone, his hand slid down and badly cut his fingers. Inspired to prevent a reoccurrence, he subsequently designed what became known as the Bowie knife. This knife had a blade nine and a quarter inches long and one and one-half inches wide.
The following year, on September 19, 1827, James Bowie and Major Norris Wright attended a duel on a sandbar outside of