Grandson told newspapers that the knife was given to the San Antonio silversmith by Texian Army Col. James Bowie as payment for rifle repair work.
, both named after old families, though only the Barrera Street name has survived. But reader Belinda Molina Yndo also asked for more information about a Bowie knife passed down by Agustin Barrera to his grandson, Dr. Charles Augustus Rosenheimer Campbell, a public health officer famous for his patented bat roosts as a natural form of mosquito control . This week, we’ll delve into the history of the knife.
But that knife was made by the blacksmith at the Bowie family’s Louisiana plantation, according to the Bullock Texas State History Museum’s website,Mystery ‘San Antonio Iron Works’ knives may have been produced by local craftsmen In fact, “Bowie knives became a fad so popular that factories in England and Germany turned out thousands for export to Texas and the West,” says the website of the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, which owns one “likely made in England for the American trade,” with a horn handle and an inscription from “R.P. Bowie to Capt. Wm. Y. Lacey,” possibly referring to Rezin Pleasant Bowie as the giver.
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