HELPING THE OTHERS REALIZE THE ADVANTAGES OF FIGHTING BOWIE KNIFE

right after his 3-year stay in California in the course of the height on the gold hurry, author Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I have noticed purer liquors, much better segars [sic], finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirk and Bowie knives, and prettier courtesans right here in San Francisco than in some other put I have ever visited, and it