Larry, You are correct! Rezin had the first one.

There was also a blacksmith in Texas named Noah Smithwick that made at least one for Jim Bowie and several identical knives for others.

Noah Smithwick had his daughter write a book for him (EVOLUTION OF A STATE) that tells about it and several other interesting things from the 1820s to the outbreak of the civil war in Texas.



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