WHAT DOES COMBAT BOWIE KNIFE MEAN?

following his three-year stay in California in the course of the peak of the gold rush, creator Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I've witnessed purer liquors, greater segars [sic], finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirk and Bowie knives, and prettier courtesans right here in San Francisco than in some other spot I have ever frequented, and it