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FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — It would be hard to tell it today, but a little brick house on North 36th Street in Fort Smith served as the home for infamous bank robber "Pretty Boy" Charles Floyd and his family for the fall of 1931 and spring of 1932. Adjacent to Tilles Park, it was a good find for the Depression-era Robin Hood. If the police came knocking, the park may have offered some cover for a back-door escape. Having made a brazen escape from a train on its way to the Ohio State Prison on Dec. 10, 1930, Floyd had been on the run for nine m...
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Museum in Fort Smith has an impressive collection of guns and documents related to famed Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves. Almost a year out from a planned opening of the new $60 million museum, it's the lawman's family tree the curator wants most. Dave Kennedy, curator of collections and exhibits, said recently the museum is still in search of Bass Reeves's descendants, the Southwest Times Record reported. At this point, with a downtown Fort Smith statue of Reeves erected in 2012, along with several T...
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — Thomas Nuttall may not be a name as famous as other early 1800s explorers like Meriwether Lewis or William Clark, but for those who study the natural world, he is an iconic figure. Fort Smith served as Nuttall's base of operations the summer of 1819 for what would become his "Journal of Travels into the Arkansa (sic) Territory" and local restorative ecologist Steve Patterson has organized a field trip through the Kiamichi Technology Center in Poteau to retrace some of Nuttall's steps and talk about native plant s...
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — Clyde Barrow and W.D. Jones most likely were wearing suits stolen from a Fort Smith tailor in those photographs that became known as the "Joplin rolls," capturing the nation's attention on the front pages of newspapers following a deadly April 1933 shootout with police in Joplin, Missouri. Jeff Hill, a Fort Smith-based truck driver, saw two mentions of the stolen suits in extensive Federal Bureau of Investigation digital files on Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow while doing volunteer research for the Fort Smith Museum of H...
