NOT KNOWN DETAILS ABOUT FIGHTING BOWIE KNIFE

right after his three-year remain in California during the peak from the gold hurry, writer Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I have found purer liquors, superior segars [sic], finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirk and Bowie knives, and prettier courtesans right here in San Francisco than in every other place I have at any time frequented, an