One of the highlights of coming back was stopping Monday at Dixie Gun Works in Union City, Tennesse. If you ever drive past it, you ought to go in. They have many old guns on display and a lot for sale. Very educational just browsing the racks and looking at rifles. Nothing new. They had Krag Carbines, .22 military trainers, flintlocks, Schutzen rifles. Stuff like that. Worth the stop.

I bought a booklet detailing Davy Crocketts last trip into Texas. I knew he had come through Clarksville where I deerhunt but this guy had used letters and news accounts to retrace Davy’s trip. Very informative. Crockett went a lot further west than I imagined and zig-zagged all over Northeast Texas. He hit Mempis, Little Rock, Clarksville, Nacogdoches, St Augustine, Alto, Washington-on-the-Brazos and San Antonio. The title of the book is: On the Crockett Trail by Rod Timanus.

If you are going to be an edjumacated man you need to know all about folks like Davy Crockett.

Posted in uncategorized on August 8th, 2007 by blackfork | RSS 2.0 |