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  2. Bowie knife - Wikipedia

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    The Bowie knife found its greatest popularity in the Old Southwest of the mid-19th century. However, accounts of Bowie knife fighting schools are based on fiction; newspapers of the era in the region contained advertisements for classes in fencing and self-defense. [38] Bowie knives had a role in the American conflicts of the nineteenth century.

  3. Talk:39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team - Wikipedia

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    The most famous version of the Bowie knife was designed by Jim Bowie and presented to Arkansas blacksmith James Black in the form of a carved wooden model in December 1830. [1] Black produced the knife ordered by Bowie, and at the same time created another based on Bowie's original design but with a sharpened edge on the curved top edge of the ...

  4. Rezin Bowie - Wikipedia

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    Newspapers picked up the story, which became known as the Sandbar Fight, and Bowie's fighting prowess and his knife were described in detail. [25] There is disagreement among scholars as to whether the knife used in this fight was the same kind of knife now known as a Bowie knife. Many different accounts exist of who designed and built the ...

  5. Knife - Wikipedia

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    An OTF knife, showing the sliding blade being extended from the handle. A sliding knife is a knife that can be opened by sliding the knife blade out the front of the handle. One method of opening is where the blade exits out the front of the handle point-first and then is locked into place (an example of this is the gravity knife).

  6. Western Knife Company - Wikipedia

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    Logo of the Western Knife Company. The Western Knife Company was an American manufacturer of hunting knives which began operations in Boulder, Colorado in 1911. The company is probably best known for its "Bowie" style hunting knives. The company was purchased by Coleman (the famous manufacturer of outdoor equipment) in 1984.

  7. James Black (blacksmith) - Wikipedia

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    Bowie's killing of three assassins in Texas and his death at the Battle of the Alamo made him, and Black's knife, legends. [1] After Bowie's death in 1836, Black did a brisk business selling his knives to pioneers bound for Texas. Everyone seemed to want "Jim Bowie's knife."