GIANT BOWIE KNIFE NO FURTHER A MYSTERY

right after his a few-calendar year stay in California for the duration of the peak on the gold hurry, author Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I've seen purer liquors, superior 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've ever visited, and it