WHAT DOES COMBAT BOWIE KNIFE MEAN?

following his 3-12 months remain in California through the height in the gold rush, author Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I have noticed 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 any other spot I have at any time frequented, and it is