This heavy 19th century sheath knife was named for a Texas frontiersman killed at the Alamo
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J! Archive - Show #5111, aired 2006-11-27  Nov 27, 2006 ... This heavy 19th century sheath knife was named for a Texas frontiersman killed at the Alamo ... This manager who died in 1967 was referred to as the "Fifth Beatle"...
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Fighting Blades of the Frontier - True West Magazine  Aug 12, 2014 ... Some arms students feel that a bowie can be any sheath knife with a clipped ... from around 1830 through the end of the 19th century qualify as bowies. ... In the early 1800s, virtually every frontiersman packed some sort of edged ... couple months after James's death at the Battle of the Alamo, declared that,...
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Davy Crockett - Wikipedia  David "Davy" Crockett (August 17, 1786  March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, ... After his death, he continued to be credited with acts of mythical proportion. ..... By December 1834, Crockett was writing to friends about moving to Texas if Jackson's chosen successor Martin Van Buren was...
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James Bowie - Wikipedia  James "Jim" Bowie ( c. 1796  March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American pioneer, who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution, culminating in his death at the Battle of the Alamo. Stories of him as a fighter and frontiersman, both real and fictitious, have ... This, and other stories of Bowie's prowess with a knife, led to the widespread...
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Bowie knife - definition and synonims of bowie knife in english ...  A Bowie knife is a pattern of fixed-blade fighting knife first popularized by James Bowie in the early 19th Century. ... Sand Bar fight, his part in the fight for Texas independence, and his death at the Alamo. .... His chosen name references the bowie knife, named after Jim Bowie - an American frontiersman and adventurer. 19.
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Davy Crockett - Wikipedia  David "Davy" Crockett (August 17, 1786  March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American folk .... After an altercation with a fellow student, David played hookey from school. ..... First, no other accounts of Crockett's surviving the Alamo have surfaced ... He entrusted his masonic apron to the Weakly Lodge in Tennessee before...
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Kanab - Wikipedia  The kanab () was a spiked/knobbed club or truncheon used in feudal Japan as a weapon by samurai and their retainers. Other related weapons of this type are the nyoibo, konsaibo, tetsub (), and the ararebo. Related solid iron weapons with no spikes or knobs are the kanemuchi ... The shape could be that of a baseball bat with a thick heavy end tapering...
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The Story of Pecos Bill - HubPages  Dec 20, 2014 ... However, there's more to the folk-hero cowboy who once lassoed a tornado. ... However, the legend of Pecos Bill didn't really take off until Edward O'Reilly started ... Pecos Bill's life story has been formed over the years by O'Reilly and the ... As a baby he used a bowie knife as a teething ring and made wild...
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Simian - Vehementknives.com  The practical, harpoon style blade can handle camp chores, game skinning, and ... A well rounded multi-purpose knife cased in a heavy duty, scout style leather...
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[Knife and Sheath: Horn-handled dagger used by John Wilkes Booth ...  May 28, 2007 ... Knife and Sheath: Horn-handled dagger used by John Wilkes Booth to stab Major Henry Rathbone after ... Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C..
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Battle Of The Alamo | HistoryNet  Occupying soldiers called the Mission-turned-garrison El Alamo after the ... At that time, Colonel James Bowie and Lieutenant Colonel William B. Travis .... Men and animals died by the hundreds and were left on the trail, and the ... Fighting was hand to hand with knives, pistols, clubbed rifles, lances, pikes, knees and fists.
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Remembering the Alamo | History | Smithsonian  Apr 1, 2004 ... says Although the Alamo defenders including Davy Crockett (played by ... Small it may be, but the shrine to Texas freedom looms large in the ... Textbooks of the time also neglected to mention that many Alamo heroes, foremost among .... In league with his brother Rezin (said to have designed the knife...
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Follow The Brazos To Texas' Past This Summer - Brazos River ...  Many of these buildings were brought to the center from historic ranches. ... Scientists identified the bone as belonging to a species of elephant that has been extinct for ... peace officers in the state at the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum. ... Hamer, who tracked down and helped ambush outlaws Bonnie and Clyde.
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Alamo Treasure | Unsolved Mysteries Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia  Case File: Alamo Treasure Location: San Antonio, Texas Date: 1836 ... in silver and gold called the "San Saba Treasure," said to be worth millions of dollars. ... Not one of the defenders survived to tell the tale, but the legend of the ... Jim Bowie ordered that the treasure be hidden at the bottom of the well, but no ... Get Started...
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Free Flashcards about HISTORIC NAMES - StudyStack  SAM MAVERICK, WHO GAVE US A WORD FOR INDEPENDENCE, LEFT THIS TEXAS FORTRESS 4 DAYS BEFORE THE SLAUGHTER, THE ALAMO.
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Battle of the Alamo - Wikipedia  The Battle of the Alamo (February 23  March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio Lpez de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Bxar (modern-day San Antonio), Texas ... The Alamo is now "the most popular tourist site in Texas".
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Alamo Mission in San Antonio - Wikipedia  The Alamo Mission in San Antonio, commonly called the Alamo and originally known as Misin San Antonio de Valero, is part of the San Antonio ... The compound was one of the early Spanish missions in Texas, built for the education of area ... The Alamo chapel was sold to the state of Texas, which conducted occasional...
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William Groneman III | VITAE  Misremembering the Alamo  Ten things about the 1836 Texas battle every American ... You May Take Our Lives, but You Will Never Take Our Freedom, by Kirk Stirnweis. ... It's Always Better the Second Time Around, June 1981. ... Did Davy Crockett Die Fighting, or was he captured and then executed at the Alamo?.
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24/02/2016: The Devils Rope-The history of barbed wire - Mark ...  Mar 2, 2016 ... For millennia, the great American plains were covered in fertile ... came up with a deadly solution that the American Indians called the devil's rope. ... We can provide funding for education materials to highlight the fencing...
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Arkansas toothpick - Wikipedia  In modern terminology the Arkansas toothpick is a heavy dagger with a 1220-inch (3051 cm) ... Toothpick" in particular. These laws were passed in the late 1830s in Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia as an attempt to prevent dueling.
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Acero10 - James Keating  At one point in history the high plateau of the Ozarks was considered to be on the ... The Arkansas Toothpick is a large double edged, double guard type fighting ... These academies where the use of the Bowie knife could be learned were...