Non-game biologists with the Minnesota DNR in southeastern Minnesota are trying to develop a plan for one of the state’s threatened species: the timber rattler. Although they are a venomous snake, ...

As I learned from one of my favorite podcasts, The Dollop, several years back, the story of the Bowie knife is rife with murky details. What we do know is that a large fixed-blade knife with a ...

In this installment of William Broyles and Stephen Harrigan’s serialized novel, Jim Bowie’s young ward unwillingly misses the famous battle—and encounters a visitor from Transylvania. Doctor Pollard ...

Like its infamous blood-sucking villain, The Bowie Knife That Killed Dracula rose from the dead—twice. Stephen Harrigan, a noted author and longtime Texas Monthly writer, first encountered the idea ...

Somewhat surprisingly, Island beaches have bounced back admirably well after nor’easter waves ran roughshod over them. Only a few days after the blow, I drove the beaches from the Barnegat Light ...

Week 8 of the 2025 NFL season was another difficult one for the New Orleans Saints, as they fell to their division rival Tampa Bay Buccaneers, by a score of 23-3. In a game where the defense actually ...

The New Orleans Saints are taking on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 8. They were hoping to gain a bit of confidence after back to back losses. However, quarterback Spencer Rattler did not put his ...

Ohio is home to three rare venomous snakes: the timber rattlesnake, the copperhead, and the massasauga rattlesnake. The timber rattlesnake and massasauga rattlesnake are both endangered species in ...

Few people realize that the family of James, or Jim, Bowie, who made the Bowie knife famous and later died at the Alamo, spent time in Southeast Missouri at the beginning of the 19 th Century. Family ...

As we’ve documented on these pages before, the Bowie knife — made famous by James “Jim” Bowie on a Mississippi sandbar in 1827 — is about as American as a knife can get. Though the fighting knife ...

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