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320 Rogers Avenue
Fort Smith, Arkansas 72901
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Events
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Start: 10:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
Execution of Cherokee Bill, March 17, 1896
Start: 10:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
The museum’s annual Black History Month Exhibit, Bass Reeves and Fort Smith’s African-American History, will open in the Boyd Gallery on January 12, 2010, the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of the famous United States Marshal. Bass Reeves, legendary marshal under Judge Isaac C. Parker, was born a slave in Texas in 1838 and died in Muskogee, Oklahoma on January 10, 1910. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Art Burton, professor of history at South Suburban College in South Holland, Illinois, will present a program on Bass Reeves, the legendary U. S. Marshal from Fort Smith, on Wednesday, January 13, 2010, at 6:00 pm. In celebration of the opening of the exhibit Bass Reeves and Fort Smith’s African-American History, the museum is honored to host Mr. Burton. | ||
Upcoming events
Ride The Trolley!
Enjoy a historic ride through downtown Fort Smith on a fully functioning trolley.