Musso Bowie Knife question | Alamo Studies Forum - ProBoards
Dec 1, 2011 · think that his last or Alamo Knife was different and had dimensions/ characteristics indicative of the classic Bowie, but without a 1836 description of the blade, opinions can obviously vary to a great degree as to its actual appearance. I'm not a metallurgy or Bowie knife expert and I don't know much about the Collins/Musso Bowie Knife.
Musso Bowie Knife question | Alamo Studies Forum - ProBoards
Jul 19, 2009 · Bowie took the Black knife. Black kept the one he made to Bowie's specs. Facts aside, I think this story reveals a truth about how they thought then. If Caiaphas K. Ham said that the knife now in the Alamo was given to him by Jim Bowie, I have no reason to doubt it.
The Bowie Knife | Alamo Studies Forum
May 12, 2011 · Sept. 19, 1827. Gov. Wells also states that this huge knife was the one James Bowie had with him at the Alamo, which conflicts with modern perceptions of Bowie's famous weapon. Origin of the Bowie Knife and How It Looked, Sept. 8, 1889 - Fort Worth Gazette (reprinted from the Washington Sunday Herald)
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Oct 22, 2011 · The Alamo Story: From Early History to Current Conflicts. Taylor Trade Publishing (February 9, 2000). Good background on Bowie. _____Mr. Bowie with a Knife: A History of the Sandbar Fight. Haltom City, TX: Watkins Printing Services, 1998. Originally published in four parts in Knife World magazine, October 1995 through January 1996. The most ...
James Bowie | Alamo Studies Forum
Jul 19, 2010 · I became interested in the Bowie Knife, largely due to an infatuation with the Iron Mistress prop knife (or, more accurately, knives) that made so many film appearances, beginning with the Alan Ladd film and continuing through Disney's "Davy Crockett at the Alamo," the Bowie TV series, Last Command, and Wayne's The Alamo.
The Bowie Knife | Alamo Studies Forum
May 18, 2011 · The Bowie Knife. Texas History. ... Alamo and Texas Popular History. Alamo Films, Music, and Literature ...
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Sep 19, 2014 · There is some information regarding knives that Rezin Bowie made, some of which he gave away as gifts, which resembled the so-called Searles Knife. No doubt there were knives called Bowie Knives in circulation during Bowie's lifetime, and Bowie certainly might have had one, but it would be difficult to identify a single knife as the "original ...
Did Bowie go Down Fighting? | Alamo Studies Forum - ProBoards
Mar 20, 2011 · I have Primary source evidence that there were rumors after the fall of the Alamo that Bowie did indeed commit suicide. In a letter written by George W. Smyth dated March 27th, 1836 to his father Andrew Smyth of Alabama, Smyth States:
Alamo trading cards | Alamo Studies Forum
Jul 5, 2008 · Likewise, I preferred the money to the cards... I'd have thought sticking to the Alamo would make more commercial sense than covering the whole war, besides which its surprising how quickly those 88 units would be eaten up; Travis, Bowie, Crockett; Bonham; Dickinson; Santa Anna; Almonte; Cos; Sesma; Morales - thats 10 cards gone just for starters and we haven't …
Alamo History vs. Myth: Defenders in Buckskin
May 30, 2013 · Created by the book's great illustrator, William Moyers, it depicts two buckskin-clad Americans in front of the "Army" façade of the church (one swinging a Kentucky rifle, the other with Bowie knife in hand) and a Mexican soldado (his …