WHAT DOES FULL TANG BOWIE KNIFE MEAN?

soon after his three-yr stay in California all through the peak with the gold hurry, author Hinton R. here Helper wrote, “I've witnessed purer liquors, greater segars [sic], finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirk and Bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in every other location I have ever frequented, and it