USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bowie Knife.In 1838 Rezin P. Bowie, brother of Alamo hero James Bowie claimed that he made the first Bowie knife while the Bowies lived in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. He designed it as a hunting knife and gave it to James for protection after his brother had been shot in a fight.

Detailed explanation-2: -The knife got its name from a pioneer family who settled in early Arkansas and Louisiana. Jim Bowie, the best known of the brothers, killed one man and seriously injured another with a “big knife” in the “Sandbar Duel” on September 19, 1827, upriver from Natchez, Mississippi.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bowie No. 1 is a “guardless coffin” knife well-known among collectors as one of the most distinctive and desirable bowie knives in existence. The knife’s characteristics are very similar to the Carrigan knife. While several guardless coffin knives exist, from a curatorial perspective, the Carrigan and Bowie No.

Detailed explanation-4: -The knives generally feature a crossguard designed to serve to protect the hand that grips the knife, and the knife is usually in the shape called a clip point, which is the shape of most Bowie knives when the back end is curved.