On Monday's episode of "Antiques Roadshow," a Las Vegas man brought in a beautiful artifact straight off the battlefields of the Revolutionary War. "Engraved powder horns are one of the earliest forms ...
Long before cell phones held all of our photos and stored calendars for meetings, there was a primitive, but equally as personal object: the carved powder horn. This weekend, an exhibit opens at the ...
The powder horn is adorned with ornate carvings that date from the French & Indian Wars The horn was a presentation piece by a British soldier to a member of the Iroquois Confederacy A soldier, John ...
The convergence of history, culture, memory and legacy was clear to the handful of people gathered in the secured basement of the Museum of the American Revolution. On a small velvet pillow sat the ...
They were convenient and functional, the Colonial grunt’s answer to the European soldier’s manufactured cartridge box. But through years of encampments, marches and battles, some of these hollowed ...