Description
In 1929, in a hotel lobby in Claremore, Oklahoma, a transplanted Arkansas sawmill owner named J.M. Davis made up our minds to place his choice of 99 firearms on display. Since then, Claremore’s J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum has turn out to be an across the world known tourist attraction. Thousands of visitors per year marvel at exhibits featuring statuary, knives, swords, saddles, Native American artifacts, political buttons, World War I posters, and lots of other items―all along with essentially the most extensive private choice of guns on display on this planet. Through words and pictures, this book tells the in the back of-the-scenes story of the museum and John Monroe Davis―the man, his times, and his amazing acquisitions.