The Bowie Knife: Unsheathing an American Legend (Book Review)

Reviewed by Max B. Brown By Norm Flayderman Andrew Mowbray Inc., Lincoln, Neb., 2004 The Bowie knife (or bowie knife) has been on the cutting edge of many articles about the frontier West, from Jim Bowie’s demise at the Alamo in 1836 to William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s scalping of the Cheyenne warrior Yellow Hair after …