Several of his rivals have attacked him with cane swords, knives, and pistols. Bowie gets shot twice during the melee and is stabbed through the chest with a sword. Before the fight, Bowie's ...

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You really want a small hunting knife to field dress a deer. What you’re doing is akin to surgery, and you wouldn’t want a surgeon to pull your appendix out with a bowie knife. That said ...

Well, it wasn’t really Jim Bowie’s knife, but it looked enough like one for an Alamo curator to put it on display for 10 years.