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Updated: October 18, 2026
The knife had been made by Bowie's brother Rezin out of a blacksmith's rasp. It was shaped in accordance with his own ideas, and James Bowie used it with terrible effect. It was the first of the celebrated "Bowie knives" which played so great a part in frontier quarrels. In the general mêlée which followed the death of Wright and Currey, six other men were killed and fifteen severely wounded.