ABOUT BOWIE KNIVES

following his 3-yr remain in California through the peak on the gold hurry, author Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I've witnessed purer liquors, improved segars [sic], finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirk and Bowie knives, and prettier courtesans right big bowie knife here in San Francisco than in any other spot I have ever visited, and it