WHAT DOES COMBAT BOWIE KNIFE MEAN?

After his three-yr remain in California through the peak with the gold hurry, author Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I have viewed purer liquors, improved segars [sic], finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirk and Bowie knives, and prettier courtesans listed here in San Francisco than in another put I've at any time frequented, and it is actua