Fort Smith

Fort Smith is the name of several locations:

  • Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada
  • Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States
  • Fort Smith National Historic Site, in Fort Smith, Arkansas
  • Fort Smith (Louisiana), a former Confederate fort in what is now Bossier City, Louisiana

Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or smith:

    So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.
    Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

    For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into “the masses.” And where is the David who can slay this giant?
    —Lillian Smith (1897–1966)