In this installment of William Broyles and Stephen Harrigan’s serialized novel, Burk Morris, his son, and two Wild West ...

Jason Patric, drawing critical acclaim as a tough cop in “Narc,” has signed to play famed frontiersman Jim Bowie in “The Alamo.” Patric joins Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton and newcomer Patrick ...

But in an interview afterward, Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones credited Rogers with leading the $550 million project for more than four years, demonstrating the Alamo can balance the stories of heroism tied to ...

More than 180 years after his death, the mention of Jim Bowie still stirs the imagination of admirers around the world. But Bowie was more than just the knife or the battle at the Alamo. Overall, it ...

Bowie knife and sheath as pictured in mid-1800s, when the world famous, Louisiana born weaponhelped carve new North American frontiers. The knife was invented by Rezin Bowie and made famous by his ...

Despite the popular phrase, “The Alamo” is forgettable. Directed by John Lee Hancock, the film begins with Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid), surrounded by men with mutton chops, drinking whiskey and ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Frontiersman Jim Bowie is known for his western adventures and a knife. But, what many people may not know is that Bowie has roots in Louisiana. It was on a sandbar not far from ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – With Sunday as National Inventor’s Day, it’s a good time to bring up a classic Arkansas inventor who put the Natural State on the innovation map early on. As the legend has it, ...

Wear the coonskin cap if you must, but you'll have to take it off at the front door of the Alamo. And if you expect the ushers to bust a gut when you ask, "Where's the basement?", don't be ...