Sandbar Duel Part 2

[@alexdaniel3530]

Nice little touch using 'Midnight on the Water' for background music. One of my favorite olde time tunes.

[@PalmettoNDN]

What a great narrator. What fascinates me most about the design is the similarity between the Bowie and the Saxon seax 1500 years before. Just like evolution, the best designs are just reporposed.

[@Meymeygwis]

Thank you for the marvellous history! Being a proud owner of Bowie knives and related armoury I found this riveting. As a student of history myself I see the value for adding context to the fight and histories of this iconic figure, some of which are not so proud, like his slaving activities. Thank you again, please make more!

[@PhatRiver]

Our pleasure!

[@knightingalesaid]

Awesome video, it sounds like the true story with a little enbelisment. Thanks for the recreation and history lesson. I have several Bowie knives.

[@willong1000]

Grayed and fading history illuminated as honestly as possible--well done sir.

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Awesome Historical Video my friends👍 best I have ever watched. Great pleasure 🇺🇸really enjoy the introduction of both videos too!

[@PhatRiver]

Our pleasure!

[@charlesjonestherednecknerd]

Bowie was one tough man. The knife is legendary and is the American weapon. Living in AR we have James Black who is reported to have made knives for Resin Bowie. We also have a great collection in LR at the old Statehouse I believe.

[@ronniemorris9685]

Love the way this guy tells a story. And, I have many Bowie knives. One of my favorite designs.

[@richieb.6558]

That was a very interesting video. Thank you for making it.

[@jgreystoke]

The Bowie knife at the sandbar fight was described as 9 1/4" blade, 1 1/2" wide, and straight. The Black design Bowie that was made three years later was described as having a whopping 12" blade 2" wide, clip point sharpened both sides. That's the size of a short machete like the Ontario cutlass machete, and would have had a spine twice as thick, 1/4" vs 1/8" for the Ontario(which is stoutly made compared to most machetes that are much thinner steel). Now that was a knife!

[@mosses4]

Great documentary well done! Thanks.

[@Djsand1000]

FINALLY, SOMEONE WHO SAYS BOWIE THE RIGHT WAY!!!!!!!

[@lapualapua3591]

Excellent well done coo wee MR JIM BOWIE lest We Forget

[@christopheclugston]

The knife was made in Arkansas. NO mention about the Arkansas Toothpick and the importance it had on knife duels. The North east also had a huge amount of duels in USA history.

[@jgreystoke]

PS, I do go on, lol. Great documentary, very informative. BOO-ie knife, just love the sound of that.

[@cha5]

@HerbWalker That's a good question, there's all sorts of urban legends about that particular knife, like one that one of Santa Anna's soldiers retrieved it from Bowie's sickroom after the Alamo battle and kept it as a souvenir. If you Google 'Bowie Knife' you can find a museum in Arkansas that has one of James Blacks original Bowie Knives that he made for the Bowie family in 1830 that is labeled 'Bowie Number 1', Bowie had several knives and this one likely isn't the Alamo knife... but still.

[@dwightcurrie8316]

cha5; Seeing that "Spoils Of War" was a part of 19th Century warfare, it makes sense that Jim Bowie's knife would be taken from his corpse and kept as a souvenir. It's either gone to a pile of rust from neglect by now, or is still somewhere, likely in Mexico, or in Mexican hands. I wonder if the person in possession of that mythical weapon even knows what they have? It would be nice for it to surface with enough Provenance to validate it as the Bowie Knife from The Alamo. If that could be proven, the auction of such an item would be a bidding war of epic proportions. I continue to believe/hope that it's out there somewhere and one day will come to light.

[@eccentricdetectorists9754]

You should make another video about James Black's Knives.

[@johnnyquest3707]

Black knives matter.

[@concernedaussie1330]

I have a mild addiction to Bowie knives.

[@stevet5238]

very interesting and very well stated !!!

[@bruceevans56]

I have many friends who play hammered dulcimer. Can you identify the artist playing the music in this video?

[@СергейСергеев-б3е8т]

‘ missed again ‘ sounds like a sort of f..king comedy .

[@PhatRiver]

Has there ever not been?

[@robcochran6213]

Bowie ended up bring a knife to a Mexican gun fight

[@arrivervalley6231]

Well done and extremely informative. However, you never mention the origin of the bowie knife from James Black in Arkansas or the fact that the most sought after bowie knives are in fact from James Black.

[@petergianakopoulos4926]

That's it?

[@armandmule8763]

were they storm troopers?? i know guns back then were very inacurate but they were 7 feet apart!!!!

[@PhatRiver]

Makes you wonder right, did they really want to kill anyone?

[@MrRugercat45]

Most likely they were farther apart than 7 feet, you have to realize that both men wanted to first of all survive, secondly to satisfy their honor publicly so they’re not thought of as cowards. I would say many duels were decided before the shots began by a quiet private talk between the primaries or their seconds if they didn’t want to speak to each other. I think many times they decided to conveniently miss each other and then just drop it. Honor would be satisfied and they both walked away. Not always of course. I’m sure this happened many times however. It was publicly frowned upon of course so a near miss was best for “show” but remember both people wanted to live another day. The will to survive is very strong. It was difficult to make yourself not look a coward and satisfy honor publicly and yet not get yourself killed. It was against the rules and code of honor in the Old South but it happened more often than we think nowadays I’m sure.

[@monicastewart5449]

Bowie Knife aka Hells Angels Blade favorite knife of old biker gangs of late 60 to late 80's

[@TheChiwhiz]

Couple of lousy shots!

[@bruceevans56]

Dueling pistols typically had smooth bores and the balls were lightly patched. To use anything more accurate would have been dishonorable.

[@stephenurkel]

norma jean-like bring a knife to a gun fight!!!! it makes sense now

[@MarvelDcImage]

Bloods vs Crips. No different. They even had a form of Gangsta rap - where these duels were celebrated in print if not in song.

[@mosses4]

Great documentary well done! Thanks.