I love their jolly abandon of manner, their kindness and "honesty," and their gasconade.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
In this way they made very good time, so that by late evening they reached the mouth of the gasconade, which comes in from the left from the hill country.
"The Young Alaskans on the Missouri"
Emerson Hough
At the crossing of the gasconade River they stopped long enough to thoroughly burn the bridge to check Lyon's certain advance, and while doing this Sterling Price cut the telegraph wires with his own hands.
"The Struggle for Missouri"
John McElroy