THE BEST SIDE OF BOUY KNIFE

After his three-12 months stay in California in the course of the peak on the gold rush, author Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I've noticed purer liquors, much 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 almost every other put I've at any time