WHAT IS A BOWIE KNIFE - AN OVERVIEW

right after his 3-yr stay in California during the height with the gold hurry, creator Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I have witnessed 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 every other position I have ever visited, and it is