Bowie knife commissioned by Rezin Bowie for his brother James, circa 1830s [500X171].

Born in 1796 in Kentucky, James Bowie made his name in Louisiana as a land speculator and slave trader before achieving notoriety at the Sandbar Fight, what began as a formal duel spiraled into a savage melee. Shot and stabbed, Bowie managed to kill the sheriff of Rapides Parish with his massive knife. In 1830, [...]