"Powder horn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... countryside for horses and forage. Objects of military use more easily picked out of the list taken by his executors include a spyglass, guns, pistols, swords, saddles, saddlebags, holsters, a powder horn and "2 spontoons." It is a local tradition that a store of these latter antique weapons were left behind in Alexandria by Braddock's direction and that they constituted part of the equipment of the town watchmen until the outbreak of ...
— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore
... men separated again. They met every two weeks. One week Boone's brother-in-law did not return to camp. He never did come back. Five years later a skeleton with a powder horn beside it was found in a hollow tree. Perhaps he was wounded by an Indian. No one really knows what happened ...
— Daniel Boone - Taming the Wilds • Katharine E. Wilkie
... and drunk the sweet milk and took all the butter, turkeys and hogs and then broke the powder horn ...
— Slave Narratives: Arkansas Narratives - Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 • Works Projects Administration |
