Fort Smith was once the last bastion of law and order before the wild frontier.
In the heyday of Fort Smith, a popular saying went, “There is no law west of St. Louis and no God west of Fort Smith.”
On the border of Arkansas and Oklahoma, Fort Smith was once, as they say, the last bastion of law and order before the wild frontier. The federal court in Fort Smith had an unbelievably large coverage area: 75,000 square miles of lawless Indian Territory (now the State of Oklahoma) with
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