moose-horns

July 21. 

Tuesday. 1 p. m. At Bangor. 

— Thatcher's moose-horns hanging in his barn spread two feet eight inches. There is one more prong on one side than the other. This is small.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 21, 1857

See July 23, 1857 ("[Mr. Leonard, of Bangor, a sportsman,] said that the horns of a moose would spread four feet, some times six; would weigh thirty or forty pounds")