HELPING THE OTHERS REALIZE THE ADVANTAGES OF BOWIE KNIFE

immediately after his 3-yr remain in California through the height of the gold hurry, author Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I've witnessed purer liquors, greater segars [sic], finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirk and Bowie knives, and prettier courtesans below in San Francisco than in almost every other spot I've ever frequented, and it i