Wonderful history of the beautiful city of Lake Geneva and the creation of Lake Geneva as a tourist attraction.

Full Speed Ahead: The Story of the Steamboat Era on Lake Geneva

Larkin, Larry

Larry Larkin Pub

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.

J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum (Images of America)

Arts & Photography

Wooley, John

McCombs, Wayne

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

<p>In 1929, a transplanted Arkansas sawmill owner named J.M. Davis decided to put his collection of 99 firearms on display in the lobby of his Claremore, Oklahoma, hotel. Some 40 years later, on Davis's 82nd birthday, the artifacts found a permanent home at the Claremore's J.M. David Arms and Historical Museum, an internationally known tourist attraction celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2019. Today, thousands of visitors a year marvel at exhibits featuring statuary, knives, swords, saddles, American Indian artifacts, political buttons, World War I posters, and many other items--all in addition to the most extensive private collection of guns on the face of the earth. With 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.</p>

J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum (50th Anniversary Edition) (Images of America)

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.

J. M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))

History

Americas

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

<p>Illustrated with color photos of classic and modern boats and the people who own them.</p>

Grand & Glorious: Classic Boats of Lake Geneva

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Boston Mills Press

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