Spiro, Oklahoma

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Artists From Spiro

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Albert E. Brumley
gospel Pop: 5
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Dallas Frazier
country Pop: 4

Rivers & Roads in Song near Spiro

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Spiro.

U.S. Route 59 7 songs Arkansas River 8 songs Highway I 40 20 songs Interstate 49 3 songs Canadian River 7 songs

History of Spiro

Bass Reeves: The Deputy Marshal Who Couldn't Read His Warrants RoadyGoat

1875

You're in the heart of old Fort Smith, where Judge Isaac Parker ran the federal court for the wild Indian Territory, and where one of the West's greatest lawmen pinned on his star. Bass Reeves was born into slavery around 1838 and grew up unable to read or write. When Parker took the Fort Smith bench in 1875, the marshals needed deputies who knew the Territory and could speak its Native languages, and Reeves knew it better than almost anyone. He became one of the first Black deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi. Because he could not read, he had his warrants read aloud and memorized every name and charge, then served them without fail. A master of disguise, he would ride into outlaw country dressed as a tramp or a poor farmer, hiding his badge and cuffs under rags. He was a dead shot who was never wounded, though he had his hat, his belt, and even his horse's reins shot away. In 1878 he ended a long hunt for the outlaw Bob Dozier in a single gunfight. Over thirty-two years he was credited with more than three thousand arrests. A bronze monument to him stands here today. (Sources: National Park Service, Fort Smith NHS; Encyclopedia of Arkansas; TSHA Handbook of Texas.)

RoadyGoat → · 14.8 mi away

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center

800

One of the most important pre-Columbian archaeological sites in North America, Spiro was a major political and religious center of the Mississippian culture from 800 to 1450 AD.

Fort Smith National Historic Site

1817

Federal courthouse where Judge Isaac C. Parker, the 'Hanging Judge,' presided over Indian Territory justice from 1875 to 1896, sentencing 160 people to death.

14.8 mi away

Camp Chaffee - Fort Chaffee

1941

Military installation near Fort Smith where Elvis Presley received his famous Army haircut in 1958 and where thousands of Vietnamese and Cuban refugees were processed.

17.2 mi away

Things to Do in Spiro

quirky 24.3 mi away
Heavener Runestone

An 12-foot stone slab with alleged Viking runes in the Oklahoma mountains. Nobody can explain it.
nature 22.2 mi away
Cavanal Hill

At 1999 feet it is officially one foot short of a mountain -- making it the world tallest hill.
historical 24.3 mi away
Kansas City Southern Roundhouse Site

The KCS railroad built a roundhouse here and turned Heavener into a lumber boomtown.
quirky 24.3 mi away
Heavener Runestone Viking Festival

Every October the town throws a Viking festival for a stone that might be a hoax.
historical 24.4 mi away
Le Flore County Coal Fields

Coal seams in the Ouachita foothills fueled the railroad and built the town.
historical 24.4 mi away
Peter Conser House

Home of a Choctaw Lighthorse captain who kept order in Indian Territory.
historical 24.4 mi away
Zachary Taylor Ward Store Site

Ward and his Choctaw wife Tabitha founded the settlement in 1880.
nature 18.2 mi away
Robert S. Kerr Lake and Dam

Arkansas River navigation project creating a massive reservoir in the Ouachita foothills.

Everything Near Spiro

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