The Horse-Gator Bowie features a brass pommel with the rare half-horse, half-alligator struck into it. The horse-alligator seems to have originated with an old keel-boatman's brag, "I'm half-horse, half-alligator, and I can whup anybody in the house" It was popularized in the new nation by a song about the War of 1812: "The Hunters Of Kentucky."
