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Looking for pictures of bison powderhorns.

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54ball:
 Nicholas Cresswell was the son of a well to do British gentleman, who came to the Colonies in 1774.  He came to sew his wild oats and that he did. :o  As far as great accomplishments he had none but he kept a journal and that is his contribution to history.
 He traveled through Caintucky and made note of his highly decorated powder horn.  It was a posession that he was very proud of.  It was a bison/buffalo powder horn trimmed in silver.  I seem to remember it having a silver spout with silver trim around the butt.
 This according to the book Patriots of the American Revolution.  So at least one silver trimmed buffalo horn is documented.  ;D
BTW his account is in the Tory section of the book.

Clark Badgett:
Yes, buffalo horn was available in the east. There were even plenty of buffalo to get them off of.  The American Bison fourished on a substatial portion of the continent.

Chuck Burrows:
William Clark's Buffalo Horn.....


Museum of the Fur Trade - picture in The Plains Rifle, by Charles Hanson


My own - built in 1973, the plug is wood with a deer antler cap..

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