The Bowie Knife

Bowie family quickly made efforts to actively link the Bowie name with the famous knife's design and quality. The story of Jim Bowie's feats with his knife spread blacksmiths across the country began to receive requests from customers to make them a knife like buoys as far afield is england. Even backwoodsmen who were used to such knives adopted the new terminology of the 1830s and requested Bowie knives it's by name it Smithies from St Louis to the Mexican border.