WHAT DOES COMBAT BOWIE KNIFE MEAN?

After his three-yr stay in California during the height with the gold rush, creator Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I've found purer liquors, improved 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 area I have ever visited, and it real