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Kentucky Rifle is a 1955 American Western movie starring a buckskin-clad Chill Wills and featuring Sterling Holloway and Henry Hull, involving smuggling a wagon filled with rifles past American Indian tribes already aware of the subterfuge. The picture was directed by Carl K. Hittleman.
Usage examples of "kentucky rifle".
Davy shot at the instant I did, and his long Kentucky rifle held true.
The so-called Kentucky rifle, which had played so powerful a role in the War of Independence and had practically decided the War of 1812, was in truth a Lancaster rifle, invented and perfected in the smithies and shops of this town.
By contrast, quite a few Continentals were armed with the American long rifle, known variously as the Pennsylvania rifle (because it was first made by German Pietists in that state) or the Kentucky rifle (after the state in which it gained its fame).
He owned a fine Kentucky rifle, with a cherry-wood stock, and was contemptuous of the bulky carbines most of the troop had adopted.
The towering, snowclad hills, the dancing mirage of the desert, the look of a Blackfoot's chest in the sights of a long Kentucky rifle, these he could not forget.
Pat had marked his shop with a huge sign made like an up-time Kentucky rifle that reached most of the way across the narrow street.