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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