DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)
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Cleaning my Chromebook screen earlier today I fractured it. Was not wiping very hard. Anyways, it's a pita to look at and I lucked out finding a date appropriate post from 2022, so a repeat this week. (new screen on Amazon $50, YouTube video made replacement look easy, I'll find out
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This Day in History February 23, 1836
The 13 day seige of the Alamo Mission near present day San Antonio Texas took place from February 23 to March 6, 1836. 6,000 Mexican troops under General Santa Anna took control of the Mission with casualties estimated to be between 400 to 600. Of the 256 known present at the Mission there were 43 survivors. Famously present were Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett, the Seige ending the morning of March 6 with their deaths.
Wiki link for further reading.
Battle of the Alamo - Wikipedia
Drawing of the Alamo c.1854
Around 2008 Buck made a series of large knives for Browning''s Living History Series. There were 6 total and Buck made 3 of them for sure. They are documented in the Special Projects list. 003 Robert E Lee, 004 Eisenhower/Normandy, 006 Vietnam. The 001 Liberty Tree and 002 The Alamo are not documented. 005 Crazy Horse is an Obsidian bladed knife so I don't know how that could be connected to Buck. Each of the knives has a wooden handle taken from a tree with some historical connection. In the case of the Alamo knife, Oak from a tree in the Mission courtyard.
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I'm going to post a picture of the Browning 002 Alamo knife anyways. Shown here along side the Buck 903 Bowie to maintain correctness.
Jim Bowie died at the Alamo but to this day large bladed fighting style knives are iconically called "Bowie" knives.
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