LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – With Sunday as National Inventor’s Day, it’s a good time to bring up a classic Arkansas inventor who put the Natural State on the innovation map early on. As the legend has it, ...

WASHINGTON -- A festival to celebrate James Black, the bladesmith who forged the first Bowie Knife for Jim Bowie and to promote a variety of Arkansas heritage crafts and trades, is being organized.

Texas historians have written volumes about Jim Bowie, who died at the Alamo, but what people remember most about him is a big hunting blade he carried — a weapon known in history simply as the Bowie ...

Bowie knife and sheath as pictured in mid-1800s, when the world famous, Louisiana born weaponhelped carve new North American frontiers. The knife was invented by Rezin Bowie and made famous by his ...

LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas can claim to be the home state of one of the most legendary blacksmiths in American history - James Black, the maker of a famed fighting knife for Jim Bowie. While working as a ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - It was on a sandbar not far from this spot on the Mississippi River near Vidalia, Louisiana, where frontiersman Jim Bowie made a name for himself and his knife. Born in ...

As a fearsome weapon, the Bowie knife recently donated to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum speaks for itself. It is 17 inches long, with a bison horn hilt and a sturdy high carbon steel blade ...

AUSTIN – If Jim Bowie lived in mid-19th century Texas and the 160-plus years since, he'd have had to leave his legendary double-edged knife tucked away at home, or at least stowed somewhere safe. But ...

Before the movies, before the television shows, before the song, there was the book that I read. The novel was a fictionalized tale of a man and his knife that trivialized reality. Although he was ...