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Alden Burge began smoking turkeys in a smokehouse behind his home at Lewisville after moving to this southwest Arkansas town from Shreveport in 1953. At first, the turkeys were gifts for friends and family members. Those who worked with him in the oil and gas fields thought they were so good that they begged him to smoke turkeys for them.
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