Another one of my songs......titled...."The Little Village©" The pictures are of Fort Smith National Historic Site, and the Fort Smith Trolley Museum...Fort Smith, Arkansas. They were taken in the "Fall" of 2005. I hope that you enjoy my song, and the photos. Please feel free to comment, and to rate the video...thanks!!! Some history of the prison at Fort Smith....... The stories told at Fort Smith National Historic Site span the years 1817-1896. Soldiers, laundresses, Native Americans, civilians, federal judges and marshals, deputy marshals, jail guards, lawyers, and outlaws all played a role in the history that unfolded here. From 1873 until 1896, the federal court conducted executions on the grounds of the courthouse. The gallows scaffold was located against the southeast corner of the wall that surrounded the old fort. For twenty-one years, Judge Isaac C. Parker held the bench of the US Court for the Western District of Arkansas. His tenure was unique in the history of the federal judiciary; while most US district judges toiled away on civil cases, Parker heard thousands of criminal complaints involving disputes and violence between Indians and non-Indians. He sentenced 160 people to death, and for fourteen years he did so while the condemned had no right of appeal. From 1873 through 1896, eighty-six men were executed on the gallows at Fort Smith. All the men executed were convicted of rape or murder. After the Civil War, there was a mandatory federal death sentence <b>...</b>