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title	:	Fort Smith, Little Gibraltar On the Arkansas
author	:	Bearss, Edwin C.; Gibson, Arrell Morgan
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0806112328
print isbn13	:	9780806112329
ebook isbn13	:	9780585100449
language	:	English
subject	Fort Smith (Ark.)--History, Southwestern States--History, Military.
publication date	:	1979
lcc	:	F419.F7B35 1979eb
ddc	:	976.7/36
subject	:	Fort Smith (Ark.)--History, Southwestern States--History, Military.

Page iii Fort Smith Little Gibraltar on the Arkansas Second Edition By Edwin C. Bearss and Arrell M. Gibson UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS NORMAN AND LONDON

Page iv OTHER BOOKS BY EDWIN C. BEARSS: Decision in Mississippi (Little Rock, 1962) Rebel Victory at Vicksburg (Little Rock, 1963) Hardluck Ironclad Cairo (Baton Rouge, 1966) Steele's Retreat from Camden (Little Rock, 1967) Fort Smith: Little Gibraltar on the Arkansas (in collaboration with Arrell M. Gibson, Norman, 1969, 1979) OTHER BOOKS BY ARRELL M. GIBSON The Kickapoos: Lords of the Middle Border (Norman, 1963) The Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain (Norman, 1965) Fort Smith: Little Gibraltar on the Arkansas (in collaboration with Ed Bearss, Norman, 1969, 1979) The Chickasaws (Norman, 1971) Wilderness Bonanza: The Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma (Norman, 1972) (editor) Frontier Historian: The Life and Work of Everett Dale (Norman, 1975) The Oklahoma Story (Norman, 1978) LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 68-31377 ISBN: 0-8061-1232-8 Copyright 1969, 1979 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. Second edition, 1979; second printing, 1988.

Page v Contents Chapter I. Introduction page 3 II. Belle Point 8 III. War Drums on the Verdigris 20 IV. Fort Smith's New Garrison 43 V. Little Gibraltar on the Arkansas 66 VI. Fort Smith in the Interim 90 VII. The White Lightnin' War 113 VIII. The Belle Point Phoenix 137 IX. The Citizens' War at Fort Smith 166 X. Portals of Croesus 191 XI. Mother Post for the Southwest 214 XII. Fort Smith and the Civil War: A Confederate Post 238 XIII. Fort Smith and the Civil War: A Union Post 270 XIV. Fort Smith's Epitaph 299 Bibliography 335 Index 340

Page vii Illustrations General Zachary Taylor following page 70 Stephen Harriman Long General Mathew Arbuckle "Cavaniol Mountain," in Eastern Oklahoma, 1819 Fort Smith in 1820 Ring's Farm, West of Fort Smith Fort Coffee "Fort Smith," by H. B. Mollhausen, 1853 Fort Smith During Indian Council of 1865 following page 150 Whipple Expedition in the Field Whipple Expedition, 1853 Camp Wilson, 1853 City and Garrison, Fort Smith, 1871 Officers' Quarters A, Fort Smith, 186570 Fort Smith on the Eve of the Civil War Old Commissary Building, Fort Smith, 1917 Barracks used as courtroom and jail by Judge Parker following page 230 Federal Courthouse and Jail, 1889 Prisoners on steps of courthouse, 1879

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