A SIMPLE KEY FOR WHAT IS A BOWIE KNIFE UNVEILED

right after his 3-year stay in California for the duration of the peak in the gold rush, writer Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I have viewed purer liquors, better segars [sic], finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirk and Bowie knives, and prettier courtesans in this article in San Francisco than in some other put I've ever visited, and it ca