HELPING THE OTHERS REALIZE THE ADVANTAGES OF FIGHTING BOWIE KNIFE

immediately after his three-calendar year stay in California throughout the height of the gold rush, writer Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I've observed purer liquors, far better segars [sic], finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirk and Bowie knives, and prettier courtesans listed here in San Francisco than in any other location I have ever