Dick Summers making fire in A.B. Guthrie's book "Fair land, Fair Land"

"Summers spread grease on the rag, sprinkled powder from his horn on the grease and worked it in.

Higgins came back with an arm load of fire branches. Summers took one of them, got out his knife (Green River knife) and began cutting shavings, thin as ribbons. Nothing but a razor sharp blade could do that, and Mack wondered how the man kept his knife in such shape.

Summers put the shavings over the rag, added some fine twigs, poured a bit of gun powder under one end of the rag, and withdrew flint and steel from his possible sack. He rubbed the powder from his hands on his pants leg and then struck a spark. The bit of powder went up in a puff but still ignited the rag. As the fire spread sputtering along it, lighting the shavings, Higgins said "by god, a slow fuse". Higgins built up the fire and began heating frying pans...."