bowie knife

Mullins, Bill Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Fri May 6 20:01:20 UTC 2005


 OED has 1842
"Mississippi Arguments" from the New York _Sun_, in the Pennsylvania |
Gettysburg | The Adams Sentinel | 1837-03-13 p. 1 col 2.
"A tall, lank, bilous looking Missisippian was at this moment opening
his trunk very carefully, and taking therefrom a brace of pistols,
placing them in his pockets, and a Bowie knife in his bosom, by was of a
<i> Breast Pin </i>."



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