" "nonetheless, there isn't a verifiable account of him at any time working with any knife in a combat besides after, while in the Sandbar brawl, and there's no purpose in the slightest degree to doubt the assertion of Rezin Bowie ..." ^ Some Bowie knives had a notch on The underside with the blade near the hilt often known as a "Spanish Notch".

immediately after his 3-12 months stay in California through the height in the gold hurry, author Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I've observed purer liquors, better segars [sic], finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirk and Bowie knives, and prettier courtesans below in San Francisco than in almost every other spot I've at any time visited, a