AUSTIN – If Jim Bowie lived in mid-19th century Texas and the 160-plus years since, he'd have had to leave his legendary double-edged knife tucked away at home, or at least stowed somewhere safe. But ...

In this installment of William Broyles and Stephen Harrigan’s serialized novel, a mysterious Mexican aristocrat bids against Buffalo Bill and the vampire Erzsebet for Jim Bowie's knife.

AUSTIN – If Jim Bowie lived in mid-19th century Texas and the 160-plus years since, he'd have had to leave his legendary double-edged knife tucked away at home, or at least stowed somewhere safe. But ...

SAN ANTONIO – March 6 will mark the 181st anniversary of the fall of the Alamo. As usual, activities are taking place to commemorate the historic event. Part of the commemoration includes a new ...

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 blade ...

VIDALIA, La. (WVUE) - Frontiersman Jim Bowie was born in Kentucky and died in Texas at The Alamo. But he actually became famous during the years he spent growing up, working -- sometimes as a slave ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – With Sunday as National Inventor’s Day, it’s a good time to bring up a classic Arkansas inventor who put the Natural State on the innovation map early on. As the legend has it, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - It was on a sandbar not far from this spot on the Mississippi River near Vidalia, Louisiana, where frontiersman Jim Bowie made a name for himself and his knife. Born in ...

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 Bowie ...

Jim Bowie is having a moment. Why? It's his birthday. He was born on this date in Kentucky in 1796. The famed knife fighter, land speculator, slave trader and Texas revolutionary died at the Alamo in ...