{"product_id":"bridging-borders-and-time-fs-bicentennial-book","title":"\"Bridging Borders and Time\" - FS Bicentennial Book","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e248 pages\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e     \u003c\/span\u003ehard cover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eProduced by the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookhouse.net\/portfolio-posts\/city-fort-smith\/\" data-hveid=\"CAIIAAgACAoQAQ\" aria-label=\"Bookhouse Group. Link preview. Site: Bookhouse Group, Inc.. Title: City of Fort Smith, Arkansas - Bookhouse Group, Inc.. URL: https:\/\/bookhouse.net\/portfolio-posts\/city-fort-smith\/.\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 500; margin: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(26, 13, 171); border-bottom: 0px rgb(26, 13, 171);' style=\"text-decoration: 1px rgb(26, 13, 171);\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-complete=\"true\" data-sfc-inited=\"2\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\"\u003eBookhouse Group\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c!--TgQPHd||[[\u0026quot;https:\/\/bookhouse.net\/portfolio-posts\/city-fort-smith\/\u0026quot;,null,null,[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,[{\u0026quot;1218\u0026quot;:[16]}]],16,null,\u0026quot;City of Fort Smith, Arkansas - Bookhouse Group, Inc.\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;City of Fort Smith Bridging Borders \\u0026 Time — A Bicentennial Portrait of Fort Smith Arkansas. Fort Smith, Arkansas, was once a tiny end-of-civilization outpost of the U.S. Army. It was the termination of one of the black marks on American history—the Trail of Tears—and home to bordellos, muddy streets, and stern frontier justice. Today, it sports a tearoom, concerts, a world-class public art display, and restaurants where a dinner for two of char crusted lamb loin with a nice French white wine from the Côte de Beaune can lighten your AmEx of $300. On the horizon? America\u0026#39;s next great museum. Small wonder that businesses large and small are no longer flying over Fort Smith to other potential homes. How can you miss when your first introduction to the city is the airport where the gate area features arm chairs and sofas in lieu of hard plastic seats bolted to floors? It\u0026#39;s tempting to say that after 200 years Fort Smith has finally hit its stride. But locals who\u0026#39;ve been here through an economic cycle or two, and thus have a sense of perspective, will tell you something else—that, in fact, Fort Smith has only just burst from the starting gate. Optimism runs high and pride runs strong here along the meandering banks of the Arkansas River.\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q\\u003dtbn:ANd9GcRqLcfvMMj0X3cpRFOgKC1HSrzL6s2bC4fD0fLTfaip6cUjEVdHPImx6lnibTDOrS_TI1XdJEqtpzQP568\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;Bookhouse Group, Inc.\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;https:\/\/encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com\/faviconV2?url\\u003dhttps:\/\/bookhouse.net\\u0026client\\u003dAIM\\u0026size\\u003d128\\u0026type\\u003dFAVICON\\u0026fallback_opts\\u003dTYPE,SIZE,URL\u0026quot;,[[1781295321549158,90871176,1814442291],null,null,null,null,[[2,0,0,9]]],null,\u0026quot;e0520532-a709-4e35-8f3e-832e34228d5e\u0026quot;]]--\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e in collaboration with local historians, the hardcover book serves as both a historical record and a modern profile of the city. The title beautifully reflects Fort Smith's geographical position right on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/fosm\/learn\/photosmultimedia\/g_vt_04.htm\" data-hveid=\"CAIIAAgACAoQAg\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 500; margin: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(26, 13, 171); border-bottom: 0px rgb(26, 13, 171);' style=\"text-decoration: 1px rgb(26, 13, 171);\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-complete=\"true\" data-sfc-inited=\"2\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\"\u003eArkansas-Oklahoma border\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c!--TgQPHd||[[\u0026quot;https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/fosm\/learn\/photosmultimedia\/g_vt_04.htm\u0026quot;,null,null,[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,[{\u0026quot;1218\u0026quot;:[16]}]],16,null,\u0026quot;Boundary Line - Fort Smith National Historic Site (U.S. ...\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;Boundary Line with Indian Territory Imagine standing here in 1825, to the east would have been Arkansas Territory, and to the west, a vast domain traded to the Choctaw Nation for their ancestral lands in the east. Fort Smith\u0026#39;s location here at the edge of Indian Country was a major factor in its evolution and vitality. The history of the fort and of the town growing up around it was shaped by the forced removal of eastern tribes to Indian Country, the booming border trade in contraband goods, white settlers\u0026#39; relentless push for land, and the military\u0026#39;s efforts to maintain order. The Choctaw lands remained part of Indian Country until 1907 when Oklahoma became a state. 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