DETAILS, FICTION AND WARIVO BOWIE KNIFE

Bowie knives played a role from the Siege of Bexar, among the first skirmishes of the Texas Revolution. Using their Bowie knives, associates from the volunteer Texan army, the precursor to the Texas Rangers, were in a position to slice by walls and roofs to engage the Mexicans in near beat. The Bowie knife was a straightforward, unpretentious inst