More Than Just A Name On A Knife

Brandishing the new knife that bore his name, Jim Bowie settled an old score with a Louisiana lawman on Sept. 19, 1827, and quickly packed his bags for Texas.

A decade before his death at the Alamo, Bowie was a flesh-and-blood fable on the wild frontier. Hero and villain rolled into one, he was a complex personality with as many adversaries as admirers. Gambler, smuggler, killer, con artist, and refined gentleman