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“The heat, the hammering, creating something out of nothing, it’s absolutely addicting.” That is how knife smith Sergio Menchaca describes forging a hand-crafted knife and his passion for the forge ...

It’s 1827. Jim Bowie, a frontiersman, illegal slave trader, and real-estate scammer, is in a fight to the death on an island in the Mississippi River. Several of his rivals have attacked him with cane ...

The first installment of a serialized novel by William Broyles and Stephen Harrigan, which follows the Texan who slays ...

As I learned from one of my favorite podcasts, The Dollop, several years back, the story of the Bowie knife is rife with murky details. What we do know is that a large fixed-blade knife with a ...

Saturday and Sunday November 8th and 9th are the dates set for the 8th Annual Texas Custom Knife Show in Conroe.

As we’ve documented on these pages before, the Bowie knife — made famous by James “Jim” Bowie on a Mississippi sandbar in 1827 — is about as American as a knife can get. Though the fighting knife ...