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Bowie High School’s Principal Moonlights as a Knifemaker for Texas Pitmasters

September 23, 2021 | By Laurel Miller

Bowie: Come for the Giant Knife; Stay for the Friendly Folks

February 13, 2018 | By John Lumpkin

The World’s Largest Bowie Knife stands on the main road to Bowie from US 287’s high-speed bypass.

Counter Culture

April 13, 2015 | By Scott Jarrett

I’m standing with my wife and young son in front of Nostalgia Antiques/Soda Fountain in Bowie, a town some 47 miles west of Gainesville, when it hits me: Should we really take our eight-year-old into an antiques shop?

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