Fort Smith Little Gibraltar On The Arkansas

Author : Edwin C. Bearss
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ISBN 13 : 9780806112329
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fort Smith, Little Gibraltar on the Arkansas written by Edwin C. Bearss and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No history of the West is complete without the story of Fort Smith, the fort that “refused to die.” Established in 1817, Fort Smith was repeatedly abandoned and reoccupied during the following fifty years, eventually becoming the mother post of the Southwest. The original fort was installed on the Arkansas River by Major William Bradford and a company of the Rifles Regiment. Bradford's mission was to stop a bloody war between the Osages and the Cherokees, a conflict discouraging the emigration of eastern Indians to the lands west of the Mississippi and thereby interfering with the government's removal policy. During the Civil War, Confederate armies at Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove were supplied from Fort Smith, and the Rebel force that crushed Opothleyoholo's band marched from Fort Smith. The fort was taken by Federal troops in September 1863 and served as a Union base for the remainder of the Civil War. In 1871 the army again abandoned the fort, but the Federal Court for the Western District of Arkansas soon moved in. Under Judge Isaac Parker, the renowned “Hanging Judge of Fort Smith,” the court became a force for law and order in much of Indian Territory.

Author : J. Fred Patton
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book History of Fort Smith, Arkansas written by J. Fred Patton and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger E. Coleman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archeological Assessment for Fort Smith National Historic Site written by Roger E. Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vereinigte Staaten. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Total Pages : 23 pages
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Download or read book Fort Smith, Arkansas written by Vereinigte Staaten. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fort Smith Chamber of Commerce
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Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fort Smith, the Commercial, Manufacturing and Mining Center of the South-west ... Chamber of Commerce, Fort Smith, Arkansas written by Fort Smith Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Fort Smith National Historic Site, Master Plan, Development Concept, Final Environmental Assessment (EA) B1; Revised General Management Plan (GMP), Development Concept Plan, Interpretive Prospectus (1981) B3; Resource Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Billy D. Higgins
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557288054
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Stranger and a Sojourner written by Billy D. Higgins and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of a pioneering African-American community leader is now told. After serving in the War of 1812, Peter Caulder, a free African-American settler in the Arkansas territory, has his life turned upside down on the eve of the Civil War.

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Total Pages : 18 pages
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Download or read book Fort Smith Arkansas written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ben Boulden
Publisher : Hidden History
ISBN 13 : 9781609494506
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Hidden History of Fort Smith, Arkansas written by Ben Boulden and published by Hidden History. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the days of American westward expansion Fort Smith was the gritty frontier town whose lawless reputation became known both east and west of the Mississippi. Dubbed Hell on the Border," the last developed township just before unsettled native territory, Fort Smith laid low more than its fair share of settlers, pioneers, and outlaws alike. Yet after years of disorder, reformers and lawmen helped tame the city's wild ways, beginning Fort Smith's transformation into the prosperous city it is today. Yet buried beneath Fort Smith's infamous past are forgotten stories, untold tales, and little known facts concealed just below the city's historical surface. After years spent researching the city's history for his historical column in the Times Record, journalist Ben Boulden uncovers Fort Smith's hidden history."

Author : Daniel R. Maher
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063949
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mythic Frontiers written by Daniel R. Maher and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Maher explores the development of the Frontier Complex as he deconstructs the frontier myth in the context of manifest destiny, American exceptionalism, and white male privilege. A very significant contribution to our understanding of how and why heritage sites reinforce privilege.”— Frederick H. Smith, author of The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking “Peels back the layer of dime westerns and True Grit films to show how their mythologies are made material. You’ll never experience a ‘heritage site’ the same way again.”—Christine Bold, author of The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880–1924 The history of the Wild West has long been fictionalized in novels, films, and television shows. Catering to these popular representations, towns across America have created tourist sites connecting such tales with historical monuments. Yet these attractions stray from known histories in favor of the embellished past visitors expect to see and serve to craft a cultural memory that reinforces contemporary ideologies. In Mythic Frontiers, Daniel Maher illustrates how aggrandized versions of the past, especially those of the “American frontier,” have been used to turn a profit. These imagined historical sites have effectively silenced the violent, oppressive, colonizing forces of manifest destiny and elevated principal architects of it to mythic heights. Examining the frontier complex in Fort Smith, Arkansas—where visitors are greeted at a restored brothel and the reconstructed courtroom and gallows of “Hanging Judge” Isaac Parker feature prominently—Maher warns that creating a popular tourist narrative and disconnecting cultural heritage tourism from history minimizes the devastating consequences of imperialism, racism, and sexism and relegitimizes the privilege bestowed upon white men.