
With the popularity of Las Vegas-based "Pawn Stars," History is expanding the franchise and heading south with "Cajun Pawn Stars," set at the Silver Dollar Pawn & Jewelry Center in Alexandria, La. Jimmie "Big Daddy" DeRamus has owned and operated the shop with his family for more than two decades. DeRamus is a walking encyclopedia when it comes to historic collectibles, which is not surprising given that his store houses more than 100,000 artifacts. Much like the original "Pawn Stars," in addition to the items that are brought into the store, the show focuses on Jimmie and his family -- younger brother Johnnie and daughter Tammie -- as they run the store as well as the experts that are brought in to help appraise the items.

The guys encounter the infamous cannon used in the Colfax Massacre of 1873; Gerard pops in to pawn an old family gumbo recipe; Tammie has to step in when Jimmie is awestruck by a handmade Native American bison jacket.

The team checks out a collection of historic Civil War projectiles; Tammie and Johnnie try to get a deal on an antique toy horse; a customer walks in with a 1913 pistol sword.

Pairs of $5,000 and $10,000 bills are brought into the shop; Jimmie finds a 1930s Bonnie and Clyde model Ford; the shop meets a regular customer looking to pawn his herd of donkeys.

The gang checks out a rare long-lost first album by Jerry Lee Lewis; a local deputy sheriff tries to sell his Civil War-era Colt Dragoon revolver; Jimmie and Tammie look to befriend in a mischievous pygmy goat for sale.