Images of America: J. M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum

In 1929, in a hotel lobby in Claremore, Oklahoma, a transplanted

Arkansas sawmill owner named J.M. Davis decided to put his

collection of 99 firearms on display. Since then, Claremore's J.M. Davis

Arms and Historical Museum has become an internationally 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 many other items--all

in addition to the most extensive private collection of guns on

display in the world. Through words and pictures, this book tells the

behind-the-scenes story of the museum and John Monroe Davis--the

man, his times, and his amazing acquisitions.