Bowie knife [SEP] designer
it is impossible to clearly define the origin of the knife. To complicate matters, some American blades that meet the modern definition of the Bowie knife may pre-date Bowie.
The Bowie knife derives part of its name and reputation from James Bowie, a notorious knife fighter, who died at the Alamo. James Bowie left a very thin paper trail; in the absence of verifiable facts, his history was buried in unverifiable knife-fighting legend. Historians seriously entertain the possibility that Bowie only fought one personal knife fight
Bowie (194199), American jazz musician
- Malcolm Bowie (19432007), British academic
- Micah Bowie (born 1974), American baseball player
- Michael Bowie (born 1991), American Football player
- Nate Bowie (born 1986), professional basketball player
- Norman E. Bowie (born 1942), American academic
- Oden Bowie (182694), American politician from Maryland
- Rezin Bowie (17931841), American inventor and designer of the Bowie knife, politician in Louisiana
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