From: deowll@gmail.com   
      
   "Good Soldier Schweik"  wrote in message   
   news:rdf4e5h1noliji2b96s2uh7a1nn1fdnjiq@4ax.com...   
   > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:26:41 +0000 (UTC), wrat@panix.com (the wharf   
   > rat) wrote:   
   >   
   >>In article ,   
   >>B. Goode   wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>"Bowie knife" today may well have no relationship to what Jim actually   
   >>>used.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> The original knives still exist, and look just like Bowie knives.   
   >>   
   >> They weren't made in England either.   
   >   
   > The Original Bowie Knife? The one that Jim used in the Sandbar   
   > squabble? It was always my impression that this knife was lost.   
   >   
   > Of knives of the same era and now known as Bowie knives?   
   >   
   > One description that seems to fit the circumstances and conditions of   
   > the time and place is:   
   > http://www.geocities.com/the_tarins@sbcglobal.net/adp/history/   
   ios/bowie/knife_like_bowies.html   
   >   
   > cheers,   
   >   
   > Schweik   
   > (goodsoldierschweikatgmaildotcom)   
      
   You have to call it a real Bowie because it has a firm connection to the   
   family but it doesn't match the description of the knife used at the sandbar   
   fight. The sandbar knife seemst to have lacked a guard and needed none.   
      
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