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    The FIRST Bowie Knife??

    Actually, SOME of the "private commissions" were actually done in New Orleans, south TX, possibly in CT & perhaps in the UK. PITY that you cannot remember anything about the book that would allow us to locate a copy. yours, satx
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    The FIRST Bowie Knife??

    VERY TRUE. Rezin and/or John Bowie had several known VERY LARGE Bowie's Knives made on "private commission" for "gentlemen of means" in AR, LA & MS. One such VERY LARGE "Bowie's Knife" has a blade 20.5" long, 3.7" wide at the mid-point & about 1/2" thick at the spine. The handle & sheath is...
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    Buffalo with a smoothbore

    NICE buff, imo. = CONGRADS. yours, satx
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    The FIRST Bowie Knife??

    Do you, perchance, happen to remember either the title or the author's name of that book?? (IF you do remember either/both, I'll see if the US military library system has a copy OR if The Library of Congress possibly has it.) YEP, I want to read it. Note: I, by accident,"started an argument"...
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    The FIRST Bowie Knife??

    Me TOO. (This is a GREAT time to be an Alamo Shrine docent, as we volunteers will get to see the restoration, in person, as the restoration/construction progresses.) just my OPINION, satx
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    The FIRST Bowie Knife??

    Evidently, at least 2 things are true about the knife that COL Bowie used in the Sandbar Duel: 1. The crude/ugly Bowie's knife that is now in the Alamo collection was made by Bowie BEFORE the knife used in the Sandbar Fight was procured. and 2. COL Bowie purchased the Sandbar Fight blade from...
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    baker lean toooo

    100% TRUE. yours, satx
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    What is the strangest old timey vegetable you have eaten

    ME TOO. Otoh, I frankly LOVE stewed okra & fresh tomatoes, cooked with onions/spices. Slimy, YEP. But GOOD too, i you grew up on okra/tomatoes, as I did. (My governess was a Creole lady from NOLA & she fed me New Orleans Creole food from the time that I graduated from "baby food" until I was...
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    What is the strangest old timey vegetable you have eaten

    CHUCKLE. yours, satx
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    turnips

    ROTFLMRAO. = GOOD ONE. yours, satx
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    baker lean toooo

    AGREED 100%. = I once saw a fellow, who set up a full-size teepee by himself & quickly decided that I didn't want a teepee. (He had the numerous poles "roped on top of" a long-wheelbase F350 Ford van & was pulling a trailer with the teepee's canvas/ropes/pulley arrangement/other gear, inside.)...
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    The FIRST Bowie Knife??

    And to ALL, It is my position that "the brother's Bowie" did NOT invent a knife that nobody had ever made anything that similar to before but that what the brothers made or designed were historically important. For that reason, (like many people who are interested in artifacts that were of...
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    The FIRST Bowie Knife??

    Pardon me for pointing out that the Bowie-type knife, that your source pictures, is NOT the blade that I'm talking about. Further there is period mention of the ONLY knife that COL Bowie was known to have made himself. (I suspect that the Colonel found out the same thing that I discovered, when...
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    What is the strangest old timey vegetable you have eaten

    Nopales. yours, satx
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    baker lean toooo

    For overnight or a couple of nights out, I like a "plain Jane" water-proofed painter's tarp OR the FORESTRER, as each sets up fast & is pretty much weather-proof even in a BAD rain/snow storm IF staked/guyed solidly/securely. yours, satx
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    baker lean toooo

    ImVho, as I used to live in a Baker every Summer, when I was a BSA Camp Program Director, Waterfront Director & (previous to those 2 jobs) a SM of my own troop. (My "Summer Place" had a twin bed w/mosquito nets, folding domino table, porta-potty, book shelf/paperbacks, full-size picnic table...
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    The FIRST Bowie Knife??

    Go check your mailbox, please. yours, satx
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    The FIRST Bowie Knife??

    And to ALL, A "piece of G2", the Director of Member Services also said, once the "carnival sideshow" that is across Alamo Street is removed, that the buildings that were once on the West Wall of the Alamo Fortress will be reconstructed & will be used to display the Phil Collins Collection. (Her...
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    The FIRST Bowie Knife??

    And TO ALL: I'm resurrecting this tread because about 2000 this evening (08JAN18) I was at a formal living history training class for docents at The Alamo Shrine. The assistant curator "mysteriously disappeared" during the class & about 1/2 hour later returned in white cotton gloves and...
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    turnips

    The Koreans make GREAT Kim-Chi out of turnips. (When I shared a house with a Korean-American family, the Grandmother made it often IF turnips were CHEAP at the farmer's market in town.) yours, satx
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