ABOUT BOWIE KNIVES

soon after his a few-yr remain in California during the height with the gold hurry, author Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I have seen purer liquors, greater segars [sic], finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirk and Bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in every other put I have ever frequented, and it is my un-bias