Davey Crockett's First Rifle

[UnionMillsNW]

On display at the historical society in Knoxville. Really cool to see up close. He traded it for "a good courting horse"... I think some of use can relate to that!

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[kmk1012]

That's very neat! I love seeing history. I was able to visit the Henry Ford museum near Detroit earlier this year and it was amazing! I was thinking only cars but there's a ton of historical pieces there.



Here's a cot that George Washington used during the war, the car JFK was riding in when he was assassinated (the top was put back on to keep it together), and the chair Abraham Lincoln was sitting in at Ford's Theater when he was assassinated.

 

[Certaindeaf]

I thought it was a Bren 10.

 

[P7M13]

On display at the historical society in Knoxville. Really cool to see up close. He traded it for "a good courting horse"... I think some of use can relate to that!

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I'll bet his rifle wasn't that spiffy when he traded it. Pretty cool that it is still intact.

That's very neat! I love seeing history. I was able to visit the Henry Ford museum near Detroit earlier this year and it was amazing! I was thinking only cars but there's a ton of historical pieces there.

Here's a cot that George Washington used during the war, the car JFK was riding in when he was assassinated (the top was put back on to keep it together), and the chair Abraham Lincoln was sitting in at Ford's Theater when he was assassinated. View attachment 1035722

Lincoln's chair is a whole lot worse for the wear since I was visiting Greenfield Village every year as a school kid.
At a company I worked for in the '80's, when Chinese nationals would come to inspect the equipment we were building for them, we would take them to Greenfield Village so show some of America's history. The salesman was always scratching his head, why were the delegates so uninterested?
Had an interpreter ask, and the answer was "this is the same as what we currently work with in China."
Where those guys really had a great time was the full nude strip clubs in Windsor, Ontario. Apparently China's morality laws had no sway when they were in other countries.

 

[Stomper]

On display at the historical society in Knoxville. Really cool to see up close. He traded it for "a good courting horse"... I think some of use can relate to that!

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That looks fairly similar to the (one of the two) replicas I bought a week or so ago while in Phoenix.

 

[oremike]

Hey Andy I thought of you when I saw this:

 

[CountryGent]

Wowzer! Super neato.

 

[WinchesterColt]

The balls didn't go all the way through that thin piece of wood, and one landed on top of the other with neither being dented. LOL

Gotta love Hollywood, huh?

 

[snarlingdog]

The balls didn't go all the way through that thin piece of wood, and one landed on top of the other with neither being dented. LOL

Gotta love Hollywood, huh?

This was my favorite movie as a kid.....I believe it 110% lol I wanted to be Davy Crockett

 

[Mark W.]

Why does Davy Crockett look so much like Daniel Boone? And what idiot would stand to the right of a touch hole on a flintlock?

 

[tac]

That looks fairly similar to the (one of the two) replicas I bought a week or so ago while in Phoenix.

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More gooder pics, please.

 

[Stomper]

More gooder pics, please.

I would love to oblige you, but one of those rifles is currently in Phoenix Arizona and the other is in Woodburn Oregon, and I am currently in Fort Worth Texas!

 

[tac]

...and I am about 18 miles NW of Cambridge........NOT the one in Massachusetts, either.

 

[Gaucho Gringo]

Nice looking rifle. I have a story to tell. I don't know how of you are familiar with the mountain man, Joe Meek. He was a fur trapper who was one of the people involved with the formation of the state of Oregon and he finally settled around Hillsboro, Ore. My dad was raised in the Hillsboro area (1941 graduate of Hillsboro High School) and grew up with some of Meek's descendants most likely his great grandchildren. Anyway my dad took me along to visit his childhood friend, Steve Meek close to 60 years ago. Over the mantle were hanging two flintlock rifles that I was told belonged to Joe Meek. Being that this was family member I would be inclined to accept the statement at face value. Noticing my interest in the rifles he took one down and let me handle it. Then He cocked the rifle and gave it to me said I could pull the trigger. Being 9-10 at the time the shower of sparks surprised me having up to this point only fired my 1906 Winchester '22 rifle and my dad's .22 High Standard double nine revolver. I wish I had asked more questions at the time but I was excited just to handle the rifles which i was told belonged to Joe Meek.

 

[kmk1012]

I would love to oblige you, but one of those rifles is currently in Phoenix Arizona and the other is in Woodburn Oregon, and I am currently in Fort Worth Texas!

Woodburn Oregon?? Please tell me more! I'd like to hear about how it ended up this close to us.