GIANT BOWIE KNIFE - AN OVERVIEW

following his three-year stay in California all through the peak in the gold hurry, author Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I've witnessed purer liquors, much better segars [sic], finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirk and Bowie knives, and prettier courtesans below in San Francisco than in any other location I've at any time frequented, and