Like its infamous blood-sucking villain, The Bowie Knife That Killed Dracula rose from the dead—twice. Stephen Harrigan, a noted author and longtime Texas Monthly writer, first encountered the idea ...

A long cavalcade of wagons, teams and broken regiments of troops streamed down the old Southwest Trail, exiting the state capitol. September 10, 1863 was less than an auspicious day for the state and ...

It’s a lesser-known detail in the canon of horror literature that in Bram Stoker’s original telling, it was a Texan who finally managed to kill Count Dracula. Quincey P. Morris is a minor character in ...

Knife making. Bowie knife forging. Make a knife from a spring. Video on how to make a bowie knife from an old spring.

As I learned from one of my favorite podcasts, The Dollop, several years back, the story of the Bowie knife is rife with murky details. What we do know is that a large fixed-blade knife with a ...