Fort Smith: Little Gibraltar on the Arkansas, 2nd edition

by Edwin C. Bearss and A.M. Gibson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806112328
• ISBN13: 9780806112329
• Release Date: September 1979
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.1"