Serendipity let Fort Smith woman vote first in the South
For most casual historians, Fort Smith has been home to the "hanging judge," Isaac C. Parker; Bass Reeves, the first black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River; and in more modern times, its where Elvis Presley got his military haircut at Fort Chaffee.
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