I have seen purer liquors, better segars, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans, here in San Francisco, than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.


Land of Gold: Reality versus Fiction, 1855

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I have seen purer liquors, better segars, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans, here in San Francisco, than ...

I have seen purer liquors, better segars, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans, here in San Francisco, than ...

I have seen purer liquors, better segars, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans, here in San Francisco, than ...

I have seen purer liquors, better segars, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans, here in San Francisco, than ...