WHAT DOES BIG KNIVES FOR SALE MEAN?

immediately after his three-yr stay in California for the duration of the height in the gold hurry, author Hinton R. Helper wrote, “I have seen 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 any other area I've ever frequented, a