The Exhibit at the World’s Fair 
Kentucky, or later when Davy Crockett ranked not 
only as the best rifle-shot in all Tennessee, but also 
as a Whig congressman of note; or whether, as 
in the times of Kit Carson, the frontier had been 
pushed westward to the great plains, while new 
settlements were springing up on the Pacific coast 
and among the Rockies. The inside fittings of the 
cabin were just such as those with which we are all 
familiar in the ranch-houses and cabins of the wilder- 
ness and of the cattle country. There was a rough 
table and settles, with bunks in one corner, and a 
big open stone fireplace. Pegs and deer antlers 
were driven into the wall to support shaps, buck- 
skin shirts, broad hats, stock-saddles, and the 
like. Rifles stood in the corners, or were supported 
by pegs above the fireplace. Nothing was to be 
seen save what would be found in such a cabin in 
the wilds; and, as a matter of fact, the various 
rifles, stock-saddles, and indeed the shaps and buck- 
skin shirts, too, had all seen active service. Elk- 
and bear-hides were scattered over the floor or 
tacked to the walls. The bleached skull and antlers 
of an elk were nailed over the door outside; the 
head of a buffalo hung from the mid partition, 
fronting the entrance, inside; and the horns of 
other game, such as mountain sheep and deer, were 
scattered about. Without the door stood a white- 
capped prairie-schooner, a veteran of long service 
in cow-camps and on hunting expeditions. 
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