The Bowie knife is a very famous blade and was made famous by the notorious fighter named Jim Bowie. The knife was actually designed by his sibling Rezin in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana and smithed by metal forger Jesse Cleft out of an old document. The Bowie knife was quite famous and distinguished for its curved blade and a cross guard. It also had a special kind of blade point known as the clip point blade. The Bowie knife is actually quite long and mostly its blade goes up to twelve centimeters. Period court records do demonstrate that Rezin Bowie and Cleft were all around familiar with each other. Rezin's grandaughter guaranteed in an 1885 letter to Louisiana State University that she saw Cleft make the blade for her granddad. The Sandbar Duel This blade ended up renowned as the blade utilized by Bowie at the Sandbar Fight, which was the well known 1827 duel among Bowie and a few men, including a Major Norris Wright of Alexandria, Louisiana. The battle occurred o...