The Historic Arkansas Museum has a Bowie knife that’s marked Number 1. Is it the original?
Jerry Sanders
Batesville, Arkansas
That’s a tough one. Some say the original Bowie was actually made for Jim’s brother, Rezin, by a Louisiana blacksmith in the late 1820s. Rezin gave that knife to Jim around 1827. Jim used it to deadly affect that year in the Sandbar brawl that broke out after a duel. Jim’s blade killed one combatant and seriously wounded another. (Jim himself was stabbed seve
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