He told how the hats went up in the air from in and about the Howling Wilderness, and how the boys had gone up in rows to the broken looking-glass in the new barber-shop, and how some had even polished their bowie-knives on their boots, and sat down and tried to see themselves in the shining blade, and adjust their dress accordingly.
"First Fam'lies of the Sierras"
Joaquin Miller
He took his bowie-knife while the crowd turned to take a drink, and cut the date from the wall; and the only record, perhaps, of the first marriage in the Sierras was no more.
"First Fam'lies of the Sierras"
Joaquin Miller
It was the Gopher's bowie-knife.
"First Fam'lies of the Sierras"
Joaquin Miller